CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIEME-XVIIIEME SIECLE

Details

PANNEAU EN LAQUE ET INCRUSTATIONS
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIEME-XVIIIEME SIECLE
The panel is finely embellished in cloisonne enamel, jade, hardstone, porcelain and bone with various scholarly desk articles, including a vase holding a ruyi sceptre, a fly whisk and a scroll, a blue and white stem cup, an archaistic jade bi, and two jade animal groups, all on fitted stands and set into the black lacquer ground, within an octagonal hardwood frame inlaid with mother-of-pearl florets at the canted corners and set with gilt-bronze hardware at the top.
22¾ x 27 1/8 in. (57.8 x 68.9 cm.)

Provenance

From a European private collection.

Special notice

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Further details

AN EMBELLISHED BLACK-LACQUERED WALL PANEL
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

Sumptuously embellished panels of this present type, inset with scholarly desk objects rendered in a variety of precious materials, all typically reserved on a lacquer ground, can be found inside the Palace. See the embellished panels decorating the walls of the Chuxiugong (Hall of Harbouring Grace), illustrated in Gu gong bo wu yuan cang Ming Qing gong ting jia ju da guan, vol. 2, Beijing, 2006, pp. 696-97.

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