Lot 385 , A Chinese Hundred Birds embroidered four-fold screen, early 20th century

A Chinese 'Hundred Birds' embroidered four-fold screen, early 20th century, each panel with an ivory silk ground within a pierced and carved ebonised frame, 107 x 37cm (each silk panel), 166 x 204cm (overall)
Estimate £2,000-3,000

For provenance see lot 125.

The frame work is rather dusty and dirty but given a good clean should restore to good effect, panels at the back showing one vertical split in the right hand panel, the loose panelling is in the left panel, silkwork showing some small scattered holes, and foxing along with further discolouration, working through the panels, left hand panel with spotting at the top and near the cockerel, mid left panel with discolouration around the branches, flowers and some spotting on the left, mid right panel in better order but still with some holes to the left and right at 9 and 3 o'clock, right hand panel probably the best condition of all, some light creasing showing top left.


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Sold for £9,000