Vendor’s happiness at £7800 scroll result
A piece of Russian porcelain and an Asian painting raised most interest at West Country auctioneers Tamlyns (18% buyer’s premium) on March 8. However, a 13in long (34cm) gouache scroll painting of magpies and prunus was considerably more of a surprise.
Catalogued as 20th century Japanese, it was given a perfunctory £30-40 estimate, but Bridgwater au…