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A RARE PAINTED WOOD ‘BUDDHIST A POLYCHROME PAINTED WOOD A SMALL PAINTED WOOD ‘FLORAL’
EMBLEMS’ CABINET, YANGAM ‘FLORAL’ CABINET CABINET
Tibet, early 20th century Tibet, late 19th century Tibet, late 19th century
The double doors inset within a bevelled The front with twelve inset panels on the front The four frontal inset square panels forming
frame and boldly painted in polychrome enclosing two pairs of central doors, each two pairs of doors, each decorated with
pigments with a profusion of Buddhist panel painted with red and ochre peonies mirrored, sinuous dragons amongst large-
emblems and ritual implements under issuing from large, leafy stems in green and headed peonies and lotuses, the dragon’s
elaborate rows of pendant beaded jewellery. gilt on a dark ground, raised on four corner scaled picked out in relief, all within raised
117cm (46in) high x 37cm (14 1/2in) deep x feet enclosing an apron decorated with a borders of alternating florettes and shou
91cm (35 3/4in) wide floral meander on a red ground. 98cm (38 emblems, all raised on four corner feet. 90cm
1/2in) high x 43cm (17in) deep x 105cm (41 (35 1/2in) high x 39cm (15 1/4in) deep x
£1,500 - 2,500 1/4in) wide 76cm (30in) wide
HK$15,000 - 25,000
CNY13,000 - 22,000 £1,000 - 1,500 £500 - 700
HK$10,000 - 15,000 HK$5,000 - 7,000
This type of cabinet is known as yangam in CNY8,800 - 13,000 CNY4,400 - 6,200
Tibetan, and it was used for storing wealth
vases. These vases would be blessed once
a year in a ceremony by a lama. They would
then be stored in the yangam, next to the
altar, in order to bring wealth and happiness
to the household.

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