拍品 409
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A CHINESE-EXPORT BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER EIGHT-LEAF SCREEN
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A CHINESE-EXPORT BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER EIGHT-LEAF SCREEN

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A CHINESE-EXPORT BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER EIGHT-LEAF SCREEN
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Finely decorated in a wealth of details on the black-lacquer ground in two tones of gold and highlighted in red, on one side depicting the township of Guangzhou (Canton) witnessing a wedding procession filing past grand governmental buildings, including the Bureau of Textiles and Monetary Policy, The Office of the Governor of Guangdong and The Office of the General of Guangdong, towards the Temple of Diamond (Jin Gang An), enclosed by smaller buildings including the town gates and shops, restaurants and tea houses, the festive atmosphere further enhanced by jugglers and street performers, all surrounded by rippling water and verdant hills, the border with pairs of four-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst clouds, on the reverse with a variety of birds, some in flight and some perched on flowering and fruiting branches issuing from rockwork, minor age cracks and restorations
83½ in. (212 cm.) high; 172 in. (440 cm.) wide
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拍品专文

The street depicted on this screen with all the governmental buildings adjacent to each other was once known as Yi Tiao Ya Men Jie (The One Street for Governmental Offices), and is now called Zhongshan 4th Road. The Temple of Diamond (Jin Gang An) was built in the early Qing Dynasty, but was distroyed around 1948. It is possible that the wedding depicted here is that of Zhuang Yougong (1713-1767), althugh this screen dates later, to the 19th century. Zhuang was one of the only three officials native to Guangdong to have obtained the zhuang yuan (the highest honor of all Imperial exams) degree in the Qing dynasty. The two big lanterns at the beginning of the procession bears the characters Zhuangyuan zaifu (prime minister of the zhuang yuan degree) and his surname. His wedding would have been one of the most memorable events of the day, and it is possible that it was a favoured subject for craftsmen of the ensuing generations.