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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION

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~1161 PROVENANCE:

A PAIR OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND IVORY-INLAID QUAIL- Collection of Reverend Victor Farmer (1898-1977).
FORM BOXES AND COVERS Property from a private English collection.
18TH OR 19TH CENTURY
來源: Victor Farmer 神父舊藏
清十八或十九世紀 螺鈿鵪鶉形蓋盒一對
EXHIBITED:
Each box and cover is naturalistically modelled in the form of a resting quail,
with its wings folded and feet tucked under the body. Both birds are intricately The Arts Council of Great Britain and the Oriental Ceramic Society, The Arts of
inlaid with mother-of-pearl feathers, with incised highlighted details. The the Ch’ing Dynasty, London, 26 May - 2 July 1964, no. 386.
beaks and feet are rendered in carved ivory. The underside of each cover bears
a mother-of-pearl tablet carved with the four-character seal mark Qianlong Yu See a similar pair of mother-of-pearl-inlaid ‘duck’ boxes and covers, sold at
Wan. Christie’s London, 8 November 2011, lot 218.

3¡ in. (8.5 cm.) wide, wood stands and ftted box (2) A similar pair was exhibited and published in Mother of Pearl: A Tradition in
Asian Lacquer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2 December 2006 - 1
£10,000-15,000 $16,000-23,000 April 2007, p. 67, no. 29-30, ref. 56.32.1.2a.b.
€14,000-20,000

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