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                                                           A DAMASCENED IRON BRUSHPOT
           1282                                            17TH / 18TH CENTURY
122 SOTHEBY’S
                                                           the cylindrical vessel gilt-decorated with four
                                                           adjoining vertical cloud scrolls, the rim and
                                                           stepped base also gilt, the patina dark brown with
                                                           russet mottling
                                                           Height 4½ in., 11.3 cm

                                                           PROVENANCE
                                                           New York Private Collection.
                                                           M.D. Flacks Ltd., London.

                                                           $ 2,000-3,000

                                                           ⋩ᶫġİġ⋩ℓᶾ䲨ġġġ揝⯨悐挷慹⌟暚䲳䫮䫺

                                                           1281

                                                           A ‘HUANGHUALI’ BRUSHPOT
                                                           19TH / 20TH CENTURY

                                                           the cylindrical vessel with inset base, the rim and
                                                           interior partially black-lacquered
                                                           Height 7¼ in., 18.4 cm

                                                           Ⴚ$ 3,000-5,000
                                                           ⋩ḅġİġḴ⋩ᶾ䲨ġġġ湫剙㡐䫮䫺

                                                           1282

                                                           A MIRROR PAINTING AND ‘ZITAN’
                                                           TABLE SCREEN
                                                           QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

                                                           comprising a double sided rectangular mirror,
                                                           painted to one side with a depiction of Jiang Ziya,
                                                           the famed military strategist, dressed in humble
                                                           attire, seated on a riverbank, shing rod in hand,
                                                           gazing out at the surrounding countryside, the
                                                           reverse plain, set within a beaded zitan frame
                                                           with a horizontal panel carved on both sides with
                                                           confronted kuilong, the stand with two slotted
                                                           uprights with further archaistic carving joined by
                                                           stretchers and a taotie motif apron (2)
                                                           Height 9 in., 22.9 cm; Width 8½ in., 21.6 cm;
                                                           Depth 3¼ in., 8.3 cm

                                                           $ 2,000-3,000

                                                           㶭⋩ḅᶾ䲨ġġġ掉䔓㜦ᶳ䌐憋⚾㍺⯷
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