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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

歐洲私人珍藏

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A HARDWOOD STRIKING TABLE CLOCK
19TH CENTURY, SIGNED WONG YIH SHING, SHANGHAI

清十九世紀早期 硬木嵌鎏金攝政風格自鳴鐘
「上海王益興」款

The clock has a circular white enamel dial with Roman hours and
Arabic quarters, surrounded by a gilt metal frame decorated with shou
characters, bats and scrolling fowers. It is encased in a wooden frame
with sliding panels to the front and reverse, decorated with openwork
foral design and two rectangular windows to the side, the twin fusee
movement with foliate engraved backplate signed ‘Wong Yih Shing /
Shanghai’, accompanied with a brass winding key

25 in. (63.6 cm.) high overall, including stands

£2,000-3,000 $3,100-4,500
€2,800-4,100

VARIOUS PROPERTIES

1175

ORIENTAL CERAMICS: THE WORLD’S
GREAT COLLECTIONS

《ORIENTAL CERAMICS. THE
WORLD’S GREAT COLLECTIONS》十冊

10 volumes.

Comprising: Tokyo National Museum, vol. 1;

National Museum of Korea, Seoul, vol. 2; Museum

Pusat, Jakarta, vol. 3; Iran Bastan Museum,

Teheran, vol. 4; The British Museum, London, vol.

5; Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, vol.

6; Musee Guimet, vol. 7; Museum of Far Eastern

Antiquities, Stockholm, vol. 8; The Freer Gallery of

Art, Washington, D.C., vol. 9; Museum of Fine Arts,

Boston, vol. 10. (10)

£1,000-1,500 $1,600-2,300
€1,400-2,000
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