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                                                                      PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
                                                                      AN ARCHAISTIC DEHUA TRIPOD INCENSE
                                                                      BURNER AND WOOD COVER
                                                                      QING DYNASTY

                                                                      the deep globular body supported on three columnar legs and
                                                                      set with a pair of upright handles, decorated with an archaistic
                                                                      band between two raised fillets, the wood cover surmounted
                                                                      by a dehua finial in the form of a single-horned recumbent
                                                                      beast
                                                                      23.5 cm, 9¼ in.
                                                                      HK$ 30,000-50,000
                                                                      US$ 3,850-6,400
                                                                      清   德化白瓷朝天耳鼎式爐 及 獸鈕木蓋

                       540

           541

           PROPERTY FROM A HONG KONG PRIVATE COLLECTION
           A BAMBOO ‘PEACH’ BOX AND COVER, QING
           DYNASTY AND
           A BAMBOO-ROOT FIGURE OF A MYTHICAL
           BEAST, 17TH CENTURY

           the box carved in the shape of a peach with gnarled branches
           extending around the sides, with wufu (five bats) in flight; the
           mythical beast carved with an apocryphal Feng Xilu mark; both
           with the patina of a warm brown colour
           18.1 and 18 cm, 7⅛ in.

           PROVENANCE
           box: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7th May 2002, lot 646.                            541
           figure: Christie’s Hong Kong, 26th April 1999, lot 579.

           HK$ 80,000-100,000
           US$ 10,300-12,800

           清   竹雕福壽雙全蓋盒 及
           十七世紀   竹根雕瑞獸
           《封錫祿製》仿款
           來源:                                     Mythical
           蓋盒:香港蘇富比2002年5月7日,編號646                 Beast
           瑞獸:香港佳士得1999年4月26日,編號579
                                                                      542
                                                                      AN INSCRIBED WOOD SEAL CARVING
                                                                      STATION
                                                                      SIGNED WANG FUCHANG (1879-1960),
                                                                      DATED 1938
                                                                      of H-shaped section, comprised fourteen wood blocks of
                                                                      various sizes intended to hold the seal while being carved,
                                                                      each side inscribed with a short inscription and signed Wang
                                                                      Fuchang with seal and date
                                                                      10.1 cm, 4 in.
                                             542                      HK$ 10,000-15,000
                                           Two Views
                                             兩面                       US$ 1,300-1,950
                                                                      1938年   王福厂款題字木座
           154     SOTHEBY’S  蘇富比
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