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PROPERTY FROM THE TANGLONGGE COLLECTION
AN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE BAMBOO ROOT CARVING OF A FROG

QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

    Price Realised HKD 2,125,000
    Estimate
    HKD 480,000 - HKD 600,000
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    AN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE BAMBOO ROOT CARVING OF A FROG

    QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

    Price Realised HKD 2,125,000
    Price Realised HKD 2,125,000
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    The present bamboo carving of a frog was in the Wang Shixiang Collection and was one of his most prized possessions. It was included in his bamboo collection catalogue Zhuke jianshang, Taipei, 1997, p. 64, no. 17, in which he said “Of all the bamboo root carvings of frogs that I have seen, none surpasses this.”


    23⁄4 in. (7 cm.) long
    Provenance
    The Wang Shixiang (1914-2009) Collection
    Literature
    Wang Shixiang and Wen Wango, Bamboo Carving of China, New York, 1983, p.37, fig.21
    Wang Shixiang, Zhuke jianshang, Taipei, 1997, p.64, no. 17
    Wang Shixaing, Self-Cherished Treasures of Twin-Pine Studio, Beijing, 2007, p.123, no. 5.7
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