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SUN WEIFENG, TWELVE FAMOUS
BIRDS
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
ink and color on silk, framed and glazed finely
painted with twelve different parrots including
a macaw, cockatoo, and an African grey,
each resting on a flowering or leafing branch,
inscribed and with two seals of the artist
39½ by 25¾ in., 100.3 by 65.4 cm

PROVENANCE
Knapton Rasti, London, 6th April 2004.
Sun Weifeng was a Qing court painter active
during the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods,
who studied under Giuseppe Castiglione. His
father, Sun Fu, was a court painter during
Kangxi’s reign.
$ 6,000-8,000

清十八世紀 孫威鳳 十二名禽圖
設色絹本 鏡框

來源
Knapton Rasti，倫敦，2004年4月6日

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A ‘HUALI’ WOOD RECESSED-LEG
TABLE (PINGTOUAN)
LATE QING DYNASTY
the top of standard miter, mortise and tenon
construction, with a single floating panel
supported underneath by two dovetailed
transverse stretchers, the frame edge gently
molded and beaded, the slightly splayed round-
section legs double-tennoned into the top and
cut to house the shaped spandreled apron,
each pair of legs joined on the shorter sides by
a pair of oval-sectioned stretchers

Height 32⅜ in., 82.2 cm; Width 51⅛ in.,
129.9 cm; Depth 20¼ in., 51.4 cm
◉ $ 8,000-12,000

清末 花梨木平頭案

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