Important South African & International Art, Furniture, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 17 March 2014
Cape, Colonial, Oriental & Continental Silver, Furniture & Decorative Arts
About this Item
A pair of Chinese brass fan-shaped ceremonial standards, late 19th century each chased and decorated with a pair of dragons contesting a flaming pearl, above a stylised pavilion with a fish emerging from waves below, the border with small birds perched on flowering peony branches, the standard supported in a dragon's mouth, on a twist-turned wooden pole and later stepped base, double character mark of Good Fortune above a mark of commendation for Yu the Great Emperor,120cm high, including base (2)
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