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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION

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A ‘COROMANDEL’-INSET SIX-PANEL HONGMU SCREEN
THE PANELS, KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722), THE SCREEN, 19TH CENTURY

Consisting of six fnely carved honmgu panels, each carved with foral
meander and ftted with a carved lacquer panel painted and carved with a
continuous scene of ladies and scholars in a terraced lakeside pavilion.
90 in. (228.6 cm.) high, 21√ in. (55.9 cm.) wide, 1º in. (3.2 cm.) deep,
each panel

$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE

The Oriental Collections of the late Charles D. Magrath F.R.A.S. of Peking
China; Eldred’s, Massachusetts, 14-15 August 1969, lot 385.

清十九世紀 款彩紅木亭臺人物圖六扇屏風

THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT HATFIELD ELLSWORTH

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AN UNUSUAL ORANGE AND RED-LACQUERED SOFTWOOD
CORNER-LEG STOOL
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

The top of octagonal form decorated in orange and red lacquer in
imitation of bamboo nodes, above a narrow reticulated waist and aprons
carved with ruyi heads and openwork, the curved legs set into the base
stretcher of conforming shape.
18Ω in. (46.9 cm.) high, 16 in. (40.6 cm.) square

$4,000-6,000

清十八世紀 紅漆如意頭紋方凳

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