20TH CENTURY

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A FINELY PAINTED FAMILLE ROSE PLAQUE
20TH CENTURY
Finely decorated in bright famille rose enamels after the famous Yongzheng-period painting, The Pine, Hawk and Glossy Ganoderma, by Lang Shining, with a hawk perched on a jagged rocky outcrop beneath a gnarled pine tree on the banks of a rushing river, with lingzhi, hibiscus and smaller flowering plants growing along its shores, the plaque painted with a four-line inscription in black and three seals in puce enamel reading ren hua, Shining and Bi Lu, mounted in a hongmu frame carved with lotus scroll and key fret, the reverse covered by a nanmu panel carved in deep relief with a deer and crane beneath a pine tree and holding sprays of lingzhi in their mouths
13 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (35.2 x 25.1 cm.), framed

Provenance

Richard H. and Adeline J. Fleischaker Collection.
Sotheby's, New York, 10 July 1997, lot 337 (part).

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Lot Essay

The four-line inscription in black enamel, qiannian songjie chengzhan rui, wanli yingyang juezhuangtu, may be translated as 'Beneath the thousand year old pine tree is the hawk which can fly 10,000 li'. The design on the present plaque is based directly on Lang Shining's famous Yongzheng-period painting, The Pine, Hawk and Glossy Ganoderma, which is in the collection of The Palace Museum, Beijing. (Fig.1)

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