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Lot 1041
A Chinese Carved Wooden Folding Screen with Six Kesi Panels
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
19th century, six vertical silk kesi panels, three on each side, decorated with male figures engaged in battle in a mountainous landscape with clouds above, each panel under glass and contained within a dark wooden frame with dragon carvings above and below the panels, topped with elaborate pairs of carved dragons facing a flaming pearl under swirling clouds, secured together with metal joints as a three panel screen that can be viewed from either side.


DOA 66 x 36 in.

Wooden frame of screen loose in sections with few lost wooden pegs for holding textile frame; some stress cracks to wood; some minor pulls to silk panels.