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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
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          A RARE LARGE POLYCHROME FRESCO
          MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)                          PROVENANCE:
                                                            Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 4-5 April 1940, lot 253.
          The fresco fragment is painted with a female deity, probably
          Xiwangmu, wearing a tiara centered with a peacock, and seated in a   Private collection, Connecticut.
          chariot drawn by a phoenix and traveling over clouds. She is surrounded
          by all seven female attendants, two holding up peacock feather   A related fresco dated to the Ming dynasty was sold at Christie's
          fans over the head of the deity, one holding a tripod censer and one   New York, 22 March 2019, lot 1771, and another large fresco from the
          proffering a tray of peaches. The scene is painted in bright red, green   collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth was sold at Christie's New York,
          and blue pigments, with details picked out in raised gesso.   20 March 2015, lot 772.
          49Ω in. (125.73 cm.) high x 35 in. (88.9 cm.) wide, excluding softwood
          frame
                                                            明　彩繪仙人圖壁畫
          $20,000-30,000
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