Lot 389
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A SIX-PANELLED COROMANDEL LACQUER SCREEN
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A SIX-PANELLED COROMANDEL LACQUER SCREEN

DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO THE 12TH MONTH OF THE 22ND YEAR OF THE KANGXI PERIOD, CORRESPONDING TO 1683

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A SIX-PANELLED COROMANDEL LACQUER SCREEN

DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO THE 12TH MONTH OF THE 22ND YEAR OF THE KANGXI PERIOD, CORRESPONDING TO 1683
The screen is decorated to one side with a continuous scene depicting numerous female figures and attendants in boats on a pond with lotus, in pavilions and fenced garden scenes in various leisurely pursuits, all enclosed by a phoenix border. The reverse is decorated with a recumbent deer amongst rockwork and pine trees. The top left of scene has an inscription followed by two seal marks.
Each leaf, 72 x 15 5/8 in. (183 x 39.7 cm.)
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Lot Essay

The inscription begins with two poetic lines reading cao shen yi fu lu, song lao yu cheng long, which may be translated as 'the tall grass are ideal for deer to rest in, the old pine trees desire to become dragons'. This is followed by the date 'twelfth month of the twenty second year of the Kangxi reign' and the signature Ziyang, Liu Tingwen from Hongdu, ending with two seal marks containing the characters Liu and Tingwen respectively.

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