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PROPERTY FROM THE IRENE CHIN COLLECTION, SAN
FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
6378
A FOUR-PANEL HARDSTONE OVERLAY LACQUER SCREEN
20th century
The main panels depicting cranes and swimming ducks in a
lush lotus-filled waterway landscape overlaid in jade and other
semiprecious stones on a gilt painted ground over carved panels
carved in high relief with scholars and sages in retreat in mountain
dwellings, framed at the top by ritual vessels and at the bottom with
lotus and figural scenes and set in to a geometric-designed painted
frame.
98 x 24 3/8in (249 x 61.8cm)

$5,000 - 8,000
6380
Provenance
Butterfields and Butterfields, San Francisco
Purchased between 28 October and 8 November 1985 at a non-
auction special exhibition of art made in the People’s Republic of
China.

PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
6379 6380
A PAIR OF TWO-SECTION HARDWOOD DISPLAY SHELVES A MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID SIDE TABLE
Each with a series of staggered open shelves in the upper section The rectangular top set with three white marble panels over an
over the lower section of two drawers embellished with floral designs elaborate mother-of-pearl inlaid frame and pierced apron, the top
and set off by further shelves and compartments below. portion of the four supports embellished with further floral inlays.
70 1/2 35 x 10 in (179.1 x 88.8 x 125.4cm) 42 x 74 x 20 7/8in (106.7 x 188 x 52.4cm)
$1,000 - 1,500 $1,200 - 1,800

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