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            PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE   PROVENANCE                       18th-19th October 1945, lot 437; sold again in
            COLLECTION                                                          these rooms, 22nd March 2001, lots 19 and 21;
                                              Collection of Fred Olsen (1891-1986).
            A PAIR OF POLYCHROME STUCCO       Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York,   and one of the pair sold a third time in these
            FRESCO FRAGMENTS                  28th February 1964, lots 213 & 214.  rooms 15th September 2010, lot 293.
                                              New York Private Collection.
            YUAN / MING DYNASTY                                                 $ 40,000-60,000
                                              The present frescoes are inspired by earlier
            each depicting a celestial deity attired in ß owing   depictions of Buddhist deities, like the ones   ⃫ġİġ㖶ġġġ䀘㲍⼑丒⣑⤛⚾⡩䔓㭀悐
            robes, sashes, and ornaments, the saintly   seen in the Mogao grottoes at Dunhuang.   ᶨ⮵
            round faces painted with delicate features   Compare the sculpture and murals in Cave 57,
            crowned by elaborate phoenix headdresses,   illustrated in Roderick WhitÞ eld et. al., Cave   Ը๕
            with textural details picked out in gesso   Temples of Mogao. Art and History on the Silk   Fred Olsen (1891-1986)ġ㓞啷
            relief, the Þ rst, painted dancing with one arm   Road, Los Angeles, 2000, p. 37, as well as the   Parke-Bernet Galleries炻䲸䲬炻
            gracefully arced above the head, attended by a   murals of bodhisattva in caves 172 and 199,   1964⸜2㚰28㖍炻䶐嘇213⍲214
            small kalavinka presenting a tray of ‘Buddha’s   illustrated in Chang Shuhong, The Art Treasures
            hand’ citrons, the other, charming a lion with   of Dunhuang, Hong Kong and New York, 1981,   䲸䲬䥩Ṣ㓞啷
            dizi song beside a spotted bamboo balustrade,   paying close attention to the garments and
            each composition set against a heavenly sky of   ornamentation of the Þ gures. Compare as well
            billowing clouds, framed (2)      a pair of frescoes sold at Sotheby Parke-Bernet,
            Height 60½ in., 154 cm; Width 41 in., 104 cm
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