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A RARE HONGMU TWO-PART
‘ARMORIAL CRESTED’ DISPLAY
CABINET
Late Qing Dynasty
Resting on four claw feet, the lower section
fitted with a cupboard, the doors finely carved
in low relief with flowering peonies issuing
from curling and leafy stems, revealing a
shelf and two drawers to the interior, the
upper part with a geometric arrangement of
superimposed open shelves, the cornices
carved with openwork scrolling flowers and
foliage designs, the pierced cresting carved
with scrolling acanthus leaves enclosing a
family crest featuring a lion sejant rampant
holding a cross crosslet in its paws and a
cross in its mouth.
217cm (85 3/8in) high x 126cm (49 1/2in)
wide x 42cm (16 1/2in) deep. (2).
£8,000 - 12,000
CNY71,000 - 110,000

清晚期 紅木雕紋章卷草花卉紋博古櫃

The present lot adroitly combines Chinese
decorative elements such as the lotus and
floral scrolls with a European coat-of-arms.

353
AN AMBER CARVING OF SHOULAO AND
DEER
19th century
Expertly carved in the round with Shoulao
carrying a gnarled staff, the hems of his loose
flowing robe incised, flanked by his attendant
carrying a scroll with the Taiji symbol, a
deer and a crane, amidst billowing clouds
and auspicious lingzhi fungus, all of a deep
orange-red tone.
10.7cm (4 1/8in) high.
£4,000 - 8,000
CNY36,000 - 71,000
十九世紀 琥珀雕臥鹿壽老
Provenance: Sotheby’s Hong Kong,
27 October 1993, lot 384
Gerard Arnhold (1918-2010)
Christie’s London, 14 May 2019,
lot 232 (part lot)
A UK private collection
來源：香港蘇富比，1993年10月27日，拍品
編號384
Gerard Arnhold（1918-2010）舊藏
倫敦佳士得，2019年5月14日，拍品編號232
（部分）
英國私人收藏

352 Compare with a related amber carving of
Shoulao (14cm high), Qianlong, illustrated in
Ming and Qing Chinese Arts from the C.P.Lin
Collection, Hong Kong, 2014, p.270, no.158.

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