TWO UNUSUAL CHINESE SOAPSTONE-EMBELLISHED RED LACQUER PANELS

KANGXI PERIOD (1662 - 1722)

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TWO UNUSUAL CHINESE SOAPSTONE-EMBELLISHED RED LACQUER PANELS
KANGXI PERIOD (1662 - 1722)
Decorated with ladies in European dress strolling and conversing amidst a fantastical setting of European-style architecture, while in an upper window a boy gazes down at the scene and on the other screen a Dutchman sits casually on a low wall while being entertained by a woman dancing to the accompaniment of a woman playing a pipa, his African servant standing nearby ready to refill his wine cup, all finely carved and with incised detailing, with traces of pigment
Each panel 44 x 35¾ in. (111.8 90.9 cm.)

來源

The Hon. Neville Berry; Sotheby's, London, 20 February 1968, lot 43.

拍品專文

The unusual depiction of European figures and European architecture shown in Western-style perspective can be seen on some of the panels on an extraordinary soapstone-inlaid twelve-panel screen sold Christie's, Hong Kong, 28 April 2003, lot 592. The way in which the architecture is shown on these panels, however, has more of an almost dream-like quality.