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Lot 7022Ф,Y

A carved coral figure of a beauty
Republic Period

23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
San Francisco

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A carved coral figure of a beauty

Republic Period
The slender maiden captured seated on the bough of a flowering tree holding a fan, her fashionable dress belted above the waist and tied with a ruyi headed buckle setting off her v-shaped collar, her compelling features and coiffure heightened by the network of birds and flowering branches above her head, stained ivory stand.
9in (23cm) high

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Provenance:
acquired in 1966 as per acquisition number 1966.356

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