Sold for:
$400
$400
Lacquer Table Screen, China, one side depicting butterflies, a vase of plum blossoms on a stand, and a ruyi scepter against a red ground, the reverse with a landscape scene on black ground, featuring pavilions and distant mountains, with three figures standing beneath a willow tree and overlooking a river where a man is fishing from a boat, in a frame painted with leiwen border, the side posts each with a pair of goldfish flanking a bamboo shoot above flowers, and the apron with ruyi -shaped clouds above scrolling foliate design, all painted in gilt, ht. 18 1/8 in. age cracks, loss of gilt, wear
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-10-25
