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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE WEST COAST COLLECTION
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A RARE ZITAN COUCH BED, LUOHAN CHUANG of Immortals in a grand mansion in the Western Paradise surrounded
Late Qing/Republic period by landscape waterway of pavilions, bridges, and distant hills shaded
The rectangular caned seat frame of mitred, mortise and tenon by willows, pines and heavenly clouds, the exterior of the side
construction above rectangular panels, each section carved with a panels carved with auspicious cranes and phoenix birds and further
mythical split-tailed lion over band of lotus petals set off by a shaped landscape and architectural settings, the scenes framed at the top
apron of carved attendants bearing gifts walking through a landscape by elegant phoenix birds centered on an imposing mythical lion, and
waterway, each reserve flanked by elegant phoenixes or further lions, extending to phoenix head arm rests.
the apron half-lapped and tenoned to leaf-form brackets over heavy 21 3/4in (55.3cm) high (platform); 84 1/2in (214.6cm) long; 52in
thick cabriole legs and hoof feet, the separate back and side panels (132.1cm) deep; 45 1/2in (115.6cm) height of back panel
tenoned into the seat frame and richly carved as entourages from the
left and right paying homage to a central scene depicting a gathering $200,000 - 300,000
清晚期/民國 紫檀羅漢床

Provenance:
Property of a West Coast Family, by descent

來源：
美國西岸家族珍藏

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