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PROPERTY FROM A HONG KONG PRIVATE
FAMILY COLLECTION

AN EXTREMELY RARE AND FINELY
CARVED ZITAN-FRAMED AND
APPLIQUE-DECORATED
‘HUNDRED BIRDS’ PANEL
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

mounted with painted ivory, wood, coral,
kingfisher feather, lapis lazuli, coral and various
other hardstones, to depict a mass of pairs of
birds including cranes, peacocks, herons, doves,
thrushes, finches and various other song birds
clustering around a gnarled prunus tree with
hardstone blossoms rooted in lapis lazuli rocks
issuing lingzhi and peonies, all on a light blue
ground, within a zitan frame carved with bats
(now missing) reserved on a key-fret ground, the
top set with two stylised bronze swing handles
80 cm by 117 cm, 31½ by 46 in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 10th June 1997, lot 163.
◉ HK$ 800,000-1,200,000
US$ 103,000-154,000
清十八世紀 紫檀嵌百寶百鳥朝凰掛屏
來源：
倫敦蘇富比1997年6月10日，編號163

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