LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF FOUR RED LACQUER PANELS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each red lacquer panel is of rectangular shape and is inlaid with soapstone, various hardstones, wood and bone with elaborate garden scenes including ladies in a fenced terraced garden and figures near a pavilion, all surrounded by various flowers and trees such as bamboo, prunus, lotus and pine trees. Each panel is inlaid with an inscription. They are each mounted in a hongmu wood frame.
Each panel, 55 1/8 (140 cm.) high x 25 in. (63.5 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

The inscriptions provide reference to famous poems or plays, corresponding to the scenes depicted on the panels:

Chang Sheng Dian, (the Palace of Eternal Youth), a Qing dynasty play written by Hong Sheng (1645 -1704).

Ren mian tao hua (meeting under peach blossom), a phrase that derives from the Tang poem by Cui Hu (772 - 846), referring to a romantic encounter under flowering peach blossom.

Gui Fei Zui Jiu, (the Drunken Beauty), a Qianlong period (1736-1795) Beijing Opera about the famous beauty Yang Guifei of the Tang Dynasty (618-907).

Er qiao guan shu (Two Beauties Reading) refers to the story of two beauties from the late Eastern Han period (184-220), as mentioned in a Song poem by Qin Guan (1049-1100).

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