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The Property of a European Lady of Title
Lot 183

A painted plaster rectangular fresco
Ming Dynasty

13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A painted plaster rectangular fresco

Ming Dynasty
Painted in vegetable dyes largely in an iron-red and green palette with two elegant lady Immortals respectively playing a long clarinet and a pipe cluster, wearing long flowing robes in the Tang style and with headpieces thickly decorated with jewellery.
Framed, overall 85cm x 54.5cm (33½in x 29½in).

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Provenance: Purchased in Paris circa 1966-1967

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