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A MAGNIFICENTLY CARVED each of rectangular form and superbly applied with stained
AND RARE PAIR OF STAINED ivory and painted metal in various shades of colours depicting
groups of villagers engaging in various activities in village
IVORY AND APPLIQUÉ- settings, one depicting villagers jovially celebrating the Dragon
Boat Festival, the other similarly decorated with a quaint
DECORATED ‘DRAGON village celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival and highlighted
with elements of the wudu (five noxious creatures),
BOAT FESTIVAL’ PANELS IN surrounded by three boys enthralled by it before a house,
the leisurely scene further adorned with a fenced two storey-
HUANGHUALI FRAMES pavilion, beneath a four-character panel reading wufu linmen
(‘May the five blessings come to your door’)
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG each 98.5 by 136.5 cm, 38¾ by 53¾ in.
PERIOD PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, 14th June 1979, lot 813.
◉ HK$ 3,000,000-5,000,000
US$ 383,000-640,000
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