Asian Art II - 19th May 2011

Lot 560

Two Chinese folding porcelain panels 19th century

Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £8000

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Description

Two Chinese folding porcelain panels 19th century, decorated with bamboo, lotus, crab and calligraphy, and contained in hardwood and bamboo-veneered frames, one panel broken into four, the frames damaged and with losses, 26cm. (2) Provenance: by repute, from the collection of R A G Forrest, Professor of Asian Art at Oxford in the 1920s.