QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER YUZHI MARK (1736-95)

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A FINE HARDSTONE AND HONGMU APPLIQUE PANEL
Qianlong four-character yuzhi mark (1736-95)
The rectangular cream panel applied with celadon and spinach jade, soapstone, rock crystal, rose quartz, silver-inlaid hongmu and malachite to depict precious antique or auspicious objects and scholar's accessories, including an elephant and boy vase group raised on a wood display stand, an archaistic 'bronze' vase of flowers, a ruyi sceptre, a vase containing brushes, a fan, and a jardinière, framed with an elaborate gilt-bronze hanger and placed within an outer protective glazed frame-box, minor retouching
32½ x 48¾ in. (81.5 cm. x 122 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Ornate appliqué framed panels were a popular decorative in the rooms of the palace, particularly those with floral designs or with auspicious emblems. An example of the latter in the Palace Museum, applied to a blue ground is illustrated in Daily Life in the Forbidden City, Harmonsworth, 1989, p. 242, fig. 369. Another decorated with pine tree and flowers, and bearing a cyclical date equivalent to AD 1782, fomerly in the imperial collection, is in the Nanjing Museum and illustrated by Xu Heping in Zhongguo Nanjing bowuyuan suo zang, TBS, Tokyo, 1998, p. 96, no. 64.

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