Soldier's scroll paintings turn out to be lucrative birthday presents
Leading a recent Woolley & Wallis' (25/12% buyer’s premium) sale in Salisbury were two scroll paintings by well-known 20th century Chinese artists that came by descent from Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883-1950).
Both had been given to him as gifts by senior Chinese officials during the Second World War.
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