RARE PANNEAU EN EMAUX CLOISONNES
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RARE PANNEAU EN EMAUX CLOISONNES

CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)

Closed22 June 2016

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RARE PANNEAU EN EMAUX CLOISONNES
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)
The rectangular panel is finely decorated in vivid enamels against a bright turquoise ground with nine deer, their fur picked out in white, pink and olive-brown, shown grazing, gamboling and resting in a lush landscape amidst pine trees, lingzhi, with a meandering stream flowing through blue-shaded rocks from the high mountains in the distance.
16 ¾ x 14 ½ in. (42,5 x 37 cm.), wood frame

Collection of the late Laurent Kadé (1933-1990), France, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

The deer symbolises both career advancement and longevity, while the pine trees and lingzhi constitute additional symbols of long life.

See two cloisonné enamel vessels decorated with deer in landscapes, illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, 1989, no. 322, a large fish basin, and no. 323, a tripod censer.
Deer are often painted
on enamelled porcelain of the Qianlong period. See a porcelain example, in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in China Museum Collections, Jingdezhen Polychrome Ceramics, vol. 21, no. 103; another from the Grandidier collection in the Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, no. 190.
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