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MORNING SESSION AT 10.30 AM (LOTS 201-359 INCLUSIVE)

SOLD ON BEHALF OF THE ESTATE OF THE LATE LADY BIRTHE CRADOCK (1928-2016), WIDOW OF SIR PERCY
CRADOCK (1923-2010), TO BENEFIT ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE (LOTS 201 - 228 INCLUSIVE)
英國外交官柯利達爵士(1923-2010)伉儷珍藏(拍品201號至228號)

FROM THE COLLECTION OF
SIR PERCY CRADOCK GCMC, PC (1923-2010)
AND LADY (BIRTHE) CRADOCK (1928-2016).
Christie’s are proud to present a selection of paintings and
works of art which belonged to the late Sir Percy and Lady
Cradock. They collected these mostly during Sir Percy’s
diplomatic postings in China, both during his early postings
in Peking in the 1960s and when he later returned as British
Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China from 1978 to
1983.
Sir Percy went on to serve as Foreign Policy Adviser to Prime
Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major; and, in his long
and distinguished career in public life, is perhaps best known
for his role as chief British negotiator in the drafting of the
1984 Sino-British Agreement under which Hong Kong was
handed back to China in 1997.

佳士得榮幸呈獻已故柯利達爵士伉儷珍藏之中國書畫及工藝精
品. 柯利達爵士曾於六十年代駐北京並於1978-83年間出任英國
駐華大使, 其大部分藏品於此期間購自北京.柯利達爵士於英國
首相撒其爾夫人及馬卓安爵士任內擔任外交顧問，他在香港回
歸談判中的角色更是舉足輕重,影響深遠.

The late Sir Percy Cradock (1923-2010)

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CHEN WENXI (1906-1992)
BIRD ON GOURD BRANCH

Mounted and framed, ink and colour on
paper
Signed, with one seal of the artist
13º x 13 in. (33.6 x 33 cm.)

£2,000-3,000 $2,600-3,800
€2,400-3,500

陳文希 麻雀 設色紙本 鏡框

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4 CHINESE CERAMICS, WORKS OF ART AND TEXTILES