A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND CINNABAR LACQUER TABLE SCREEN

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A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND CINNABAR LACQUER TABLE SCREEN
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The rectangular plaque framed by a lacquer border and decorated in bright cloisonne enamels with a tabletop scene of auspicious objects related with the lunar new year celebrations, including a colourful baluster vase displaying flowering and fruiting branches of plum blossoms, winter-sweet, camellia and nandina, beside two birds picking at food contained in a sweetmeat tray, fire-crackers and other festive ornaments, all against a turquoise ground with gold-wire decoration of bats and ruyi-clouds, fitted into a red lacquer stand carved with archaistic scrollwork, rich floral meanders and key-fret borders along the shaped apron, spandrels and ruyi-shaped feet
23 3/4 in. (60.3 cm.) overall height

Lot Essay

It is unusual to find this colourful combination of cloisonne enamel and cinnabar lacquer on one piece, which conveys a sense of festivity and celebration, appropriate for the subject-matter of the cloisonne plaque.

A nearly identical cloisonne enamel still-life plaque is illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinese Cloisonne: The Pierre Uldry Collection, Zurich, 1989, pl. 307; together with another closely related panel, pl. 308

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