Sale 9082
New York, Park Avenue
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22 March 1999
Price realised
USD 5,750
Estimate
A RETICULATED FAHUA BARREL-SHAPED GARDEN STOOL Ming Dynasty Deeply carved and pierced with a central band of paired peacocks standing amidst a background of ornamental rocks and dense peony foliage interrupted by two lion mask handle cartouches, all between rows of turquoise bosses reserved on a deep aubergine ground, the slightly rounded top pierced with a further peony spray roundel 13in. (33cm.) high
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A fahua garden seat of similar form also pierced at the mid-section with decoration of peacocks, is in the Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue, London, 1927, vol. IV, pl. 43.
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