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260 A WUCAI SQUARE BOX AND COVER
Wangfang Mingji four-character mark, Late Ming
Dynasty.
The four sides each decorated with floral sprays and
foliate leaves enamelled in green, aubergine and
yellow, the top of the cover similarly enamelled with
a panel enclosing two magpies perched on prunus
branches issued on craggy rocks, all reserved on a
dense diaper ground. 9.2cm (3 5/8in) wide (2).

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY26,000 - 43,000

明末 五彩喜鵲登梅蓋盒
青花「汪方明記」楷書款

Provenance: an English private collection, and
thence by descent

來源：英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今

260
A CARVED AMBER ‘IMMORTALS’ GROUP AND
A PRUNUS BRANCH
19th century
The group intricately carved with the Three Star
Gods, Fu Lu Shou, and the Eight Immortals
surrounded by gnarled trees and sea creatures,
all between crashing waves and wispy clouds
interspersed with a phoenix and a contorting
dragon, 7cm (2 6/8in) high; the prunus branch
naturalistically carved as a flowering gnarled trunk
rising from pitted rocks, wood base,
8.5cm (3 3/8in) high. (2).

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY26,000 - 43,000

十九世紀 琥珀雕群仙祝壽及梅枝

Provenance: an English private collection, and
thence by descent

來源：英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今

261 Y Ф
A VERY RARE CHENXIANGMU BRUSH REST
18th/19th century
Exquisitely carved in the form of a three-peaked
mountain, with a travelling scholar accompanied by
his attendant under a gnarled pine tree, flanked by
a fisherman seated on a sampan and a woodman
carrying timber along a winding path, the ivory stand
carved in the form of a gnarled tree trunk issuing
branches of prunus, pine and bamboo leaves.
15.8cm (6 1/4in) wide (2).

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY26,000 - 43,000

十八/十九世紀 沉香木漁樵三峰筆擱
配象牙鏤雕歲寒三友紋基座

Provenance: an English private collection, and
thence by descent

來源：英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今

Compare with a related carved chenxiangmu wood
brush rest, probably Ming dynasty, illustrated by
G.Tsang and H.Moss, Arts from the Scholars Studio,
Hong Kong, 1986, pp.216-217.

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please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.