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TWO ENGRAVED ‘ANTIQUES’ TABLE SCREENS
18th/19th century
Each incised with archaic bronze vessels and their technical names;
the first, on fitted wood stand, decorated with a lian, the reverse
inscribed in great seal script; the second, on reticulated ivory stand
engraved en-suite, with a hu and a bronze ding, the vessels identified
by inscriptions, the reverse with a caoshu couplet flanked by three red
seals and framed by crawling chilong and lotus.
The one on stand: 26.5cm (10 3/8in) high (3).
£1,500 - 2,000
CNY13,000 - 17,000 HK$15,000 - 20,000
Provenance
A Uruguayan Private Collection.
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