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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED CALIFORNIA COLLECTOR

8132 Y Ф Provenance
Warren Imports, Laguna Beach California purchased October 2005
A FINE EIGHT-PANEL HARDSTONE OVERLAY SCREEN
late 19th/early 20th century According to the lengthy inscription on one panel, the creation of
Each panel depicting scholars and sages in a lush garden complex, this lot began in the first year of the Daoguang era when a Boyuan
the figures picked out in semi-precious stones including jade, collected sumptuous materials and mounted them on a frame he
malachite, agate and carnelian with mother of pearl, bone and ivory identifies as Nanmu to recreate the sage figures of antiquity as
elements and set into a black lacquer ground, one panel bearing a painted by Tang Yin (1470-1524).
Daoguang 8th year date (1828) and a lengthy description of the lot’s
creation, set over bird and flower vignettes separated by elegant
hardwood panels carved in geometric designs housed in a hardwood
frame, the screen reversed by numerous dedicatory inscriptions, at
least one bearing a Kangxi date as well as incised landscape scenes
including one bearing an attribution to the early 18th century painter
Wang Yu.
76 x 18 7/8in (193 x 48cm) each panel inclusive of frame

US$15,000 - 25,000

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