£2,125
Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 572
Auction: 15 October 2019 at 11:00 BST
depicting figures engaged in various activities in a garden within a repetitive border of gilt oval medallions, the reserves depicting spotted deer amongst pine trees with small flowering plants and Lingzhi fungus next to a flowering brook, signed Liu Wangwen, bearing a poetic inscription and date inscription for the twenty second year of the Kangxi reign with the artist's seal.; on a 17th century wood base
Provenance: Private Collection from an Ambassador's Residence; Collection of Frank Lloyd Wright, displayed at Taliesin North, Spring Green, Wisconsin, until 1935.
Purchased Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinois, February 2012.