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A SET OF FOUR WOOD-FRAMED PLAQUES WITH FAMILLE A POLYCHROME ENAMELED PORCELAIN PLAQUE MOUNTED
ROSE ENAMEL DECORATION AS A TABLE SCREEN
20th century Late Qing dynasty
Each depicting beauties in a garden setting: one group playing musical The plaque painted with fishermen casting their nets along a river
instruments, a second group watching a companion painting, a third shoreline in the foreground, scholars meeting on a bridge leading
group observing a weiqi game, the fourth panel showing one of the to a mountain retreat in the middle ground, with boats and hills in
ladies reading a page of calligraphy; each plaque bearing a Jiaqing the distant background; the wood frame carved with an inscription
yu zhi mark in iron red seal script and mounted within a sealed wood dedicated to a Guo Riqiang and Guo Yuxian celebrating the successful
frame. completion of the Xingya corporation’s new factory, set within a pieced
11 5/8 x 9 1/2in (29.5 x 24cm) sight dimensions of plaques wood stand carved with facing dragons and clouds.
19 1/2 x 14 1/2in (49.5 x 37cm) each frame 15 x 10in (38 x 25.5cm) sight dimensions of plaque
21 5/8in (55cm) height of table screen
US$2,000 - 3,000
US$1,500 - 2,500
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A WOOD-FRAMED QIANJIANGCAI ENAMELED PORCELAIN 5160
PLAQUE TWO ENAMELED PORCELAIN WALL PLATES
Republic period Signed by Du Xiaolou
Depicting a fisherman and a woodsman accompanied by two boy Each painted in various shades with densely detailed borders
attendants chatting in a garden setting below an inscription including surrounding a placid garden setting: one with a young female working
a two-stanza seven-character ode and bearing the signature of Wu on a painting laid on a large table with a brush while her servant
Haifeng and the cyclical date jiwei (equivalent to 1919) [scratches]. looks on, the other of two young females playing weiqi as they sit by
15 1/4 x 10 1/8in (38.8 x 25.6cm) dimensions of plaque a garden rock; each with a poetic inscription matching the painted
22 1/4 x 17 1/4in (56.5 x 44cm) dimensions of frame theme followed by the signature Du Xiaolou and a red seal, the
underside of each plates stamped with a circular mark reading Jiangxi
US$1,000 - 1,500 Du Xiaolou chu pin (Produced by Du Xiaolou in Jiangxi).
9 1/2in (24.2cm) diameters
US$1,200 - 1,800

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A GROUP OF THREE FRAMED POLYCHROME ENAMELED
PORCELAIN PLAQUES
20th century
Each of vertical format and painted in brightly hued enamels with six
of the eight Daoist immortals: the first plaque depicting the female
immortal He Xiangu and Li Tieguai with his iron crutch; the second
depicting Lu Dongbin with a sword across his back and Zhang Guolao
holding a hollow bamboo tube; the third plaque depicting the bearded
Cao Guojiu with his pair of clappers hovering over the young Han
Xiangzi holding a flower basket; each plaque set within a mixed wood
frame (wear to frames).
24 1/2 x 8 1/4in (62 x 21cm) sight dimensions of plaques
30 1/4 x 13 1/2in (77 x 34cm) each wood frame

US$1,200 - 1,800

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