拍品专文
The poem on the present panel, composed by the Qianlong Emperor, is recorded in Yuzhi Shiji, Compilation of Imperial Poems, vol. 2, juan 90, dated 1759 (fig. 1).
The inscription following the poem includes the name Wang Jihua (1717-1776), a native of Xiantang (present day Hangzhou in Zhejiang province), who served as a high official at the court of the Qianlong Emperor. Wang managed the Wuying Hall in the Forbidden City, a storehouse for various rare books and archives. Cloisonné enamel panels depicting brids and flowers with Imperial poems and signature of Wang Jihua are rare. Compare to a pair of cloisonné enamel ’peony’ panels, illustrated in The Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum, The Enamel Volume, Shenyang, 2005, pp.237-239. Compare also a panel depicting pheasants standing among rocks and flowers, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3015.
The current cloisonné panel is almost identical in composition to an ink and colour on paper hanging scroll by Qian Weicheng (1720-1772), which also bears the same Imperial poem, sold at Beijing Poly, 4 December 2010, lot 3645 (fig. 2).
The inscription following the poem includes the name Wang Jihua (1717-1776), a native of Xiantang (present day Hangzhou in Zhejiang province), who served as a high official at the court of the Qianlong Emperor. Wang managed the Wuying Hall in the Forbidden City, a storehouse for various rare books and archives. Cloisonné enamel panels depicting brids and flowers with Imperial poems and signature of Wang Jihua are rare. Compare to a pair of cloisonné enamel ’peony’ panels, illustrated in The Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum, The Enamel Volume, Shenyang, 2005, pp.237-239. Compare also a panel depicting pheasants standing among rocks and flowers, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3015.
The current cloisonné panel is almost identical in composition to an ink and colour on paper hanging scroll by Qian Weicheng (1720-1772), which also bears the same Imperial poem, sold at Beijing Poly, 4 December 2010, lot 3645 (fig. 2).