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PROPERTY FROM A MIDWEST COLLECTION                  PROVENANCE
                                                    Collection of Stanley Charles Nott (1902-1969).
A PAIR OF SPINACH-GREEN JADE                        Ashkenazie & Co., San Francisco, 1982.
AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL TABLE
SCREENS                                             LITERATURE
LATE QING DYNASTY / EARLY                           Stanley Charles Nott, Voices from the Flowery
20TH CENTURY                                        Kingdom, Vermont, 1947, pl. XXXIV.
                                                    Stanley Charles Nott, Chinese Culture in the Arts,
each of rectangular form, one relief carved with a  New York, 1946, front cover.
lone gure shing by a duck pond under a broad-
leaf tree wrapped in vines, the other depicting     $ 50,000-70,000
the Han dynasty statesmen Su Wu as a goatherd,
seated with his long-tasseled sta by the roots      㶭㛓ġİġḴ⋩ᶾ䲨⇅ġġġ䡏䌱晽䈏伲䌐憋⚾娑㔯
of an old knotted pine tree, his goats and a lone   ㍺⯷忋戭偶㌸䴚䏢䐗⹏ᶨ⮵
sheep grazing nearby, the reverse of each panel
carved with an associated poem and signed
apocryphally Qianlong yuzhi with a seal, raised on
cloisonné enamel stands depicting the bajixiang,

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Height overall 16¼ in., 42 cm

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