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PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS 6387
A PAIR OF POLYCHROME PAINTED HORN LANTERNS WITH
6385 WOOD AND METAL MOUNTS
A ‘DREAMSTONE’ MARBLE AND WOOD TABLE SCREEN Late Qing/Republic period
The translucent walls of the globular lanterns painted with continuous
The marble plaques of rectangular shape and polished to one side landscapes of a mountain village and figures along a waterway,
showing veins in shades of gray and pale brown that suggest a rendered in the archaistic blue and green style with gilt and black
towering mountain range; set within a lacquered wood frame with a outlines (losses, repairs); the crown and base of each lantern
recessed panel at the base carved as dragons facing a censer and constructed with elaborately undercut pieces of thin wood finished
sliding into a conforming stand with pierced spandrels and aprons with gilt outlines on polychrome lacquered grounds and now wired
carved in relief as cloud scrolls (repaired). for electricity (repairs).
25 7/8in (65.8cm) height overall 16in 40.5cm) diameters
25in (63.5cm) height with wood crown and base
$1,000 - 1,500
$2,000 - 3,000
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A WOOD AND HARDSTONE TABLE SCREEN WITH COLORED 6388
STONE OVERLAY TWO EMBELLISHED SOAPSTONE RECTANGULAR PANELS
The rectangular hardstone plaque of mottled pale olive hue overlaid MOUNTED AS TABLE SCREENS
on one side with a quail on the ground and another bird alighting The larger plaque of mottled brown hue applied with various colored
onto chrysanthemum plants in bloom amid garden rocks, all cut from stones and iridescent shell to depict two birds on flowering branches,
the back without decoration, the plaque supported in a pieced wood
tiles of carnelian, lapis lazuli, malachite and other colored stones; stand; the smaller plaque of mottled moss-green hue, applied with
enclosed in a wood frame with prunus, pine and bamboo branches similar materials to depict two pheasants amid bamboo and a garden
carved in high relief that repeat on the apron and spandrels of the rock, the reverse mounted with ten characters forming a couplet
stand with trestle feet (chips, glue repairs). and a seal inscribed Qianlong yu zhi, the plaque mounted within an
14in (35.5cm) overall height of table screen openwork wood frame that slides into a conforming pieced wood
stand.
11 3/4 x 7 7/8in (30 x 20cm) dimensions of larger plaque
15 7/8 and 16in (40.2 and 40.2) overall height of table screens
$1,000 - 1,500

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