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A FINE, MASSIVE BLACK, GILT AND RED LACQUERED TWELVE-PANEL WOOD SCREEN
DATED QIANLONG 48TH YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1784, AND PROBABLY OF THE PERIOD
Well painted in various shades of gilt, ranging from a dull burnish to a bright sheen, with numerous scenes set within a palace complex, including dancers before an emperor, gatherings of scholars, tribute scenes, ladies in conversation, children with firecrackers, musicians, warriors, lotus gathering, ladies at their toilet and children feeding cranes, all in a continuous scene set between relief-carved and gilded panels above and below depicting 'antiques', the reverse with a lengthy inscription between further relief-carved and gilded panels of shou characters and archaistic dragons below and bats suspending musical stones between archaistic dragons above, minor damages--each panel 131 x 22in. (333 x 56cm.)
