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    Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art

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    6 November 2007

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    • A FOUR-FOLD PAINTED SCREEN
    Lot 130

    A FOUR-FOLD PAINTED SCREEN

    19TH CENTURY

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    GBP 2,500

    Estimate

    GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000

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    A FOUR-FOLD PAINTED SCREEN
    19TH CENTURY
    Each panel with a painting on silk, the first depicting birds and shrew amongst berries and blossoming branches, the second with Mandarin ducks in a flowing stream beside flowers, the third with monkeys beneath peach branches and the last with further birds on blossoming branches, within wood frames
    each panel 61 in. (155 cm.) x 17½ in. (44.5 cm.), wood frames

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