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Chinese black-lacquer coromandel twelve panel screen, 19th/20th…
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Sydney
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6-Dec-2016
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Chinese black-lacquer coromandel twelve panel screen, 19th/20th century, decorated with figures in landscape within a floral frame, the reverse decorated with flowers, titled, height 209 cm width 420 cm. Provenance: Property of a Lady, Sarah J. Conger Nee Pike, wife of the American Ambassador in china, c. 1898-1905, thence by descent. Private Collection Sydney (by repute), labels: depicting the story of the Western wing, also translated as Romance of the Western chamber. A love comedy set during the Tang Dynasty written by the Yuan Dynasty, playwright,Wang Shifu
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Antiquities: Asian