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A SeT OF BOxwOOd IMMORTAlS ANd AN eBONISed HARdwOOd dAy Bed
A SINgle wOOd FIguRe OF SHOulAO Late Qing Dynasty
Early 20th century The rectangular top with inset rattan seat
The full set of Chinese Immortals modelled panel over a railed gallery on humpbacked
standing and upon separate wood bases, stretchers and raised on supports with scroll-
each approximately 21cm high, together with carved feet.
a single larger figure of Shoulao modelled 48.5cm high, 171cm wide, 71cm deep
holding a large sprig of fruiting peach.
32cm high £500 - 700

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A ROOTwOOd gROuP OF lAOzI
Provenance RIdINg AN Ox
Brought back from China in 1947 and thence 19th century
by descent. The legendary Taoist philosopher is depicted
as a bearded old man sitting astride an ox,
143 the animal stands with one hoof raised and
A lARge ROOTwOOd cARVed head lowered.
FIguRe OF A FISHeRMAN ON BRANcH 31cm high
PlATFORM
Late 19th/early 20th century £250 - 350
The bearded man stands with his catch in
hand, the gnarled wood forming his billowing 147 Y
robes. A BuRlwOOd ANd HARdwOOd VASe
143 74cm high STANd
19th century
£300 - 400 The circular top with water-retaining
moulding and inset floating burlwood panel
144 supported on five bowed supports joined
A SeT OF FOuR FRAMed FAMIlle by a humpbacked stretcher and raised on
ROSe PANelS bracket feet.
After Wang Dafan, 20th century 17cm high, to fit a vase 19cm diameter
Depicting scenes of ‘The Eight Friends of
Pearl Hill’, inscribed Summer months of £250 - 350
Wuchen year (1928), Yishan Qiaozi Wang
Dafan written/painted in Changjiang, 148
displayed in ‘faux bamboo’ wood frames A SIlk eMBROIdeRed PANel
carved and pierced with designs of bats and Late 19th century
dragons, (two panels cracked). A phoenix flies above a qilin amidst a
Porcelain 75cm x 22.5cm, frame 121cm x profusion of flowering and fruiting sprays
36cm wide (4). interspersed with bats, birds and butterflies,
worked in various stitches in coloured silks
£1,500 - 2,000 on a purple silk brocade ground, within
embroidered border of bird panels spaced by
peony and wan symbols.
235cm x 81.5cm
£1,200 - 1,800
144 (part lot)
For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
32 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.