Indoor Carved Wood Parcel-gilt Lantern with Jade Panel Shades

Description:

Indoor Carved Wood Parcel-gilt Lantern with Jade Panel Shades, China, 18th/19th century, in the shape of a shrine, three-sided with flat back, the roof drawing four incurving rooflines, with three silk screens in between and a carved fish at the two front roof ends, surmounted with a carved jade parrot as finial, the light box, framed in carved wood with floral motifs, with a door and a sliding panel at front, the three sides screened with three spinach green jade plaques with bird-and-flower design, the wood platform, with an undulating outlines, decorated with carved floral designs, electrified with one light socket, a switch on platform, wiring to reverse, ht. 28 1/2, wd. 15 1/2 in.

Provenance: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., Sale 1141, Lot 258, March 24, 1950, New York; Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., Sale 862, Lot 736, April 16-19, 1947, New York, formerly from the collection of Edward I. Farmer.
Estimate $800-1,200

missing elements including two fish from rear roofends, a knob from the door, a tear to roof silk screen, drilled hole to the right side of the platform, loss of gilt, multiple age cracks to wood, loosened or damaged joints.


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