Sale 7431
London
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6 November 2007
Price realised
GBP 2,500
Estimate
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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