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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 659

A PAIR OF SPI NACH- GREEN JADE 'BIRD AND FLOWER' PLAQUES, LATE QING DYNASTY
Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 USD

A PAIR OF SPINACH-GREEN JADE 'BIRD AND FLOWER' PLAQUES
LATE QING DYNASTY
清末 碧玉雕花鳥圖插屏一對

each rectangular panel deftly carved in relief with a pair of peacocks amongst flowering trees, one panel finely incised on the
reverse with pavilions in a landscape, the other incised with a poem composed by the Qianlong Emperor accompanied by two
apocryphal Qianlong seals (2)

Height 17¼ in., 43.7 cm; Width 14 in., 35.6 cm

Provenance
The inscribed panel:
S. & G. Gump Co., San Francisco.
Collection of Arthur Curtiss James (1867-1941).
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 13th-15th November 1941, lot 158.

The 'landscape' panel:
S. & G. Gump Co., San Francisco.

Both panels:
Collection of James Stewart Cushman (1871-1952).
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 4th October 1952, lots 322 and 323.

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