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TERMS CASH. Goods Delivered only on Presentation of a Receipted Bill.

NEW YORK, Feb 10th 1908
M  C. L. Freer
Bought at Sale of Bunkio Matsuki Collection,

AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, MANAGERS,
6 East Twenty-third Street.
AMERICAN ART GALLERIES,
MADISON SQUARE SOUTH,
NEW YORK.
INSTITUTED JANUARY FIRST, 1883. 
JAMES F. SUTTON.
THOMAS E. KIRBY.

[[stamp]] American Art Association Paid Feb 11 1906 per [[/stamp]] LO

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1 Chinese Palace Screen
12 panels each 85" x 19¾"
Wood, lacquer covered, incised and colored. The design represents a festival in the grounds of an imperial palace during the Han period. The back of the screen in covered with inscriptions reciting the virtues of Prince Yoku-wo.ko. for whom the screen was made by order of his friends in the year 1672

in the composition. In the upper corner of the right panel an inscription. The back of the screen is also covered with inscriptions. Height 85in. width of each panel 19 ¾ in.

No 304 of the Matsuki Catalog of 1906.

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[[image: logo]] corrections I found the screen online, https://asia.si.edu/object/F1906.42a-l/ however I can't find any reference to a prince it may have been made for. I cannot figure out the name. You got it. From the same source (Google) "It was executed in 1672 (11th year of Kang- Hi) [sic; should be Kang-hsi] as a gift to the imperial Prince Yoku-wo-ko [sic; in Chinese Kong Yiweng, ..." ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-04-13 19:33:21