Lot 20
20
A Chinese export black, gilt and polychrome-lacquer twelve-panel screen
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A Chinese export black, gilt and polychrome-lacquer twelve-panel screen

18TH CENTURY

Details
A Chinese export black, gilt and polychrome-lacquer twelve-panel screen
18th century
Decorated overall with Chinoiserie scenes of figures in rocky and wooded landscapes, within a scrolling foliate border and with further smaller panels depicting landscapes and foliage, the lower edge with raised gilt cartouches on a red ground surrounded by flowers, the reverse undecorated, in two parts
each panel -- 16½in. (42cm.) wide, 80in. (203cm.) high
Provenance
The Lords Aldenham, Aldenham House, Hertfordshire.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

A related picturesque scene of 'lakeside-gardens', enclosed by flowers and small vignettes, featured on a screen that was inventoried in 1818 at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire as a '12 leaved folding screen of the rare and fine Japan enamelled in gold and coloured figures and landscapes etc.' (sold by Order of the Winn Family, Nostell Priory, Christie's House Sale, 20 April 1990, lot 258). A related scene, dated to around 1730, appears on a screen in the Victoria & Albert Museum (see C. Clunas, Chinese Export Art and Design, London, 1987, no. 66). The base of the present screen is further enriched with flowers strewn around red fan-like cartouches that are enclosed in serpentined and golden frames.

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