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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
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A HARDWOOD THREE-RAILING BED, LUOHANCHUANG
The back and side rails are deeply carved with shaped reserves framing scenes of antiques and
precious objects raised on elaborate stands and set within thick rails carved with small scrolls,
above the hardwood seat set within the rectangular frame with ‘ice-plate’ edge above a narrow,
thumb-grooved waist and plain aprons carved on the narrow sides with further scroll pattern,
all raised on thick, inward-curved legs terminating in hoof feet.
39º in. (99.7 cm.) high, 77 in. (195.6 cm.) wide, 50 in. (127 cm.) deep
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE
Acquired in Hong Kong in the early 1950s.
硬木羅漢床
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