Sale 9082
New York, Park Avenue
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22 March 1999
Price realised
USD 4,830
Estimate
A JADE AND HARDSTONE-EMBELLISHED LACQUER WALL PANEL 18th/19th Century The deep salmon ground carved with a lengthy inscription, and a cyclical date, yiwei, and inlaid in jade, hardstones and mother of pearl with 'antiques', all below a multicolored band of carved lacquer panels, each incorporating a wan roundel encircled by the wufu, ruyi heads and foliate motifs, within a hardwood frame carved with archaistic dragon scroll and mounted on top with a turquoise-enameled gilt-metal hook, with black lacquer reverse 32 x 36.5/8in. (81.2 x 93cm.) inclusive of frame
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