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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts
• Sale Date:
  14 May 2012 ~ 6.00pm (Lots 1-213)
  15 May 2012 ~ 2.00pm (Lots 214-343)
  15 May 2012 ~ 6.00pm (Lots 344-571)
• Lot #:
  518
• Lot Description:
  A Pair Of Hardwood Mounted Circular Porcelain Plaques And Stands, Late Qing Dynasty/ Republic Period
  each painted in 'famille-rose' enamels, one with two figures walking in the garden of a lakeside pavilion, another figure resting on a terrace nearby, the other with a sampan moving through a mountainous landscape of rocks and trees, each bearing an inscription in black, with wood mounts fitting in to the curved groove of the forked flat upright stand carved on each side with cloud scrolls rising from crested waves (4)
  The Panels 39cm Diam, Overall Height 72cm
• Provenance:
  Sotheby's Melbourne, 1st May 2007, lot 280
• References:
  In form the screens derive from smaller table screens made during the Qing Dynasty in various media to adorn tables in the Imperial halls. Compare a pair of white jade panels mounted on wooden stands from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection illustrated by Robert Kleiner Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman1966 pl 123 and sold Christie's Hong Kong 27 November 2007, lot 1511
• Estimate:
  A$9,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Oriental

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