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A RARE HONGMU TWO-PART 'ARMORIAL CRESTED' DISPLAY CABINET Late Qing Dynasty (2) image 1
A RARE HONGMU TWO-PART 'ARMORIAL CRESTED' DISPLAY CABINET Late Qing Dynasty (2) image 2
Lot 352TP,Y

A RARE HONGMU TWO-PART 'ARMORIAL CRESTED' DISPLAY CABINET
Late Qing Dynasty

2 November 2021, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A RARE HONGMU TWO-PART 'ARMORIAL CRESTED' DISPLAY CABINET

Late Qing Dynasty
Resting on four claw feet, the lower section fitted with a cupboard, the doors finely carved in low relief with flowering peonies issuing from curling and leafy stems, revealing a shelf and two drawers to the interior, the upper part with a geometric arrangement of superimposed open shelves, the cornices carved with openwork scrolling flowers and foliage designs, the pierced cresting carved with scrolling acanthus leaves enclosing a family crest featuring a lion sejant rampant holding a cross crosslet in its paws and a cross in its mouth.
217cm (85 3/8in) high x 126cm (49 1/2in) wide x 42cm (16 1/2in) deep. (2).

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清晚期 紅木雕紋章卷草花卉紋博古櫃

The present lot adroitly combines Chinese decorative elements such as the lotus and floral scrolls with a European coat-of-arms.

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