Sale 2504
New York
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15 April 2011
Price realised
USD 8,125
Estimate
A CHINESE REVERSE-PAINTING-ON-GLASS LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY Depicting youth seated on a low table playing a sheng, in its original Chinese giltwood frame 15¾ x 12¾ in (40 x 32.5 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 4 July 2002, lot 183. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 June 2008, lot 54.
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