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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
               3054

               A FINELY CARVED ZITAN
               SCREEN BASE
               QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
               The central panel is carved with a lotus
               blossom with trailing, leafy tendrils, above
               openwork aprons carved as archaistic scroll
               interspersed with simplified ruyi heads
               centred by small florets. The whole is raised
               on thick zitan feet flanked by standing
               openwork spandrels carved as archaistic
               scroll and vertical posts terminating in
               scroll-form ends; together with a zitan screen
               frame of later date.
               The base: 23ƒ in. (56.7 cm.) high, 25Æ in.
               (65.4 cm.) wide, 12Õ/”ÿ in. (31.3 cm.) deep
               HK$500,000-800,000
               US$65,000-100,000
               PROVENANCE
               Fine Chinese Furniture From Private
               American Collections, sold at Christie’s
               Hong Kong, 28 November 2012, lot 2048


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