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25 février 2020

A twelve-panel Coromandel lacquer screen, 18th century

2011_NYR_02427_1367_000(a_twelve-panel_coromandel_lacquer_screen_18th_century)

Lot 1367. A twelve-panel Coromandel lacquer screen, 18th century; 108 in. (274.4 cm.) high, 224¼ in. (570 cm.) wide overallEstimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised USD USD 43,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011

Carved through a brown ground and picked out in a full range of colors with a scene of Guo Ziyi seated in the main hall of his home receiving greetings from family and well-wishers, elsewhere in the compound family members and servants are engaged in a host of other activities, outside musicians play to welcome arriving guests, the entire scene framed with a border of antiques and vessels filled with various flowers, with a dedicatory inscription by Zhang Guotai and two seals reading Zhang Guotai and Ning yin, the reverse with a scene of a lotus pond surrounded by fantastic rocks, flowering plants, bamboo and pairs of birds, all between end-panels depicting dragons and qilin, the top of each panel with fan-shaped landscape cartouche, the bottom with mythical beasts

Property from the Estate of Dorothy Perera Hunt.

Provenance: Jansen, 25 November 1953.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Part I and Part II Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 24 March 2011

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