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8280 8280Y
A lacquered and pieced wood table screen
8281 mounted with jade, ivory and hardstone carvings
19th century
144 | BONHAMS Comprising a rectangular hardwood frame surrounding a floating
panel finished in matte ocher-colored lacquer mounted with painted
ivory figures, plants and fruit as well as elaborately carved ivory
stands that support a well-carved reticulated white jade plaque with
concave pearl border and green hardstone containers filled with
flowers and auspicious decorations; the supporting mixed wood stand
constructed with transverse feet beneath reticulated spandrels and
aprons carved in floral relief.
24 1/2in (62.2cm) high
$6,000 - 8,000

This lot has been in the United States prior to 1969.

8281
A wood figure of an esoteric deity
18th century
His principal hands in abhiseka mudra, the secondary arms missing,
the devout figure seated dhyanasana and clothed in flowing garments
and cape setting off a jeweled chest, heavily lobed pendant ears
enclosing a serene face with downcast eyes once framed by a crown,
all covered with a rich gilt lacquer.
23in (58.5cm) high
$5,000 - 7,000

8282Y
A finely carved ivory cabinet box
Late 18th century
The two fitted halves closing to form a subtly arching form of thin
section, the top panel adorned in two intricately rendered and deeply
undercut quadrilobate figural reserves, to the left depicting a scholar
official presiding at a garden pavilion amid a coterie of martial and
civil advisers and attendants while enjoying a dancing female figure,
to the right depicting a figure supine in bed within a curtained and
walled compound being remonstrated to by similar civil officials,
both reserves surrounded by an elegantly composed stylized vine
and lotus ground; the underside of the lid incised in shallow relief to
depict a pastoral landscape of ladies and children at a riverside farm
beside scholars amid rocky pavilions; the interior of the fitted bottom
half deeply undercut to depict a narrative scene of similar agricultural
setting and characters surrounding what appear to be foreign or
defeated figures prostrate before a gleeful group of martial and civil
officials; the underside unadorned but for a gently raised foot rim.
12 1/2in (32cm) long
$10,000 - 15,000

This lot has been in the United States since 1957