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Chinese eight-panel screen

Estimate €20.000–30.000

Description

In black lacquered wood with gilt decoration.

Leaves with reserves depicting landscapes with mythological scenes.

Versos with representations of trees of different species.

China, 18th/19th century

(signs of use, losses and defects)

(each sheet) 208x54.5 cm

The relationship between what we see and what we know is never complete. The way we see things is influenced by what we know, or by what we believe.
John Berger

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