CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE YONGZHENG (1723-1735)

Details

RARE PLAQUE ‘TALISMAN’ EN BOIS
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE YONGZHENG (1723-1735)
La plaque est finement sculptée des deux côtés. La face principale est inscrite de sutra, d'une liste de divinités bouddhistes protectrices de la direction du nord, ainsi que le diagrame cosmologique Taoïste. Le revers est sculpté des Soixante-douze Talismans de la Transcendance Divine la plus élevée pour stabiliser la maison (Taishang Mifa Zhenzhai Lingfu).
Dimensions de la plaque: circa 19 x 34 cm. (7 ½ x 13 3/8 in.)
Dimensions avec le socle: 27,5 x 49,2 cm. (10 ¾ x 19 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Previously from an English private collection, in the family since 1950s by repute.

Special notice

This item will be transferred to an offsite warehouse after the sale. Please refer to department for information about storage charges and collection details. Additional costs of 5.5% including tax of the auction price will be taken in addition to the usual costs charged to the buyer. These additional costs are likely to be reimbursed to the buyer on presentation of proof of export of the batch outside the Union European within the legal deadlines (See the "VAT" section of Terms of sale)

Further details

A RARE WOOD TALISMAN PLAQUE MOUNTED AS A TABLE SCREEN
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

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Lot Essay

The main side of this present panel is divided into four sections from top to bottom presenting various Buddhist sutra, a list of twenty-one names of the divinities protecting the North, and the Daoist cosmologic diagram. The back of the panel is incised with the ‘Seventy-two Daoist Talismans for Stabilizing the Home’. The mixture of Buddhism and Daoism was a strong cultural feature under the emperor Yongzheng’s reign since he was a fervent Daoist himself.
The size, the configuration and the textual content of our current panel is highly comparable to the three talisman panels discovered during the renovations in the attics of the Hall of Mental Cultivation and of the Hall of Supreme Harmony of the Forbidden City in 2005. Among these three panels, one was found in the Hall of Supreme Harmony with divinities of the Centre. The other two were found in the Hall of Supreme Harmony with divinities of the Centre and of the East. See the bronze talisman plaque displayed with its garniture of five pieces, dated 9th year of the Yongzheng reign (1731), exhibited and illustrated in Everlasting Spendor: Six Centuries at the Forbidden City, 2020, Beijing, pl.74. (fig.1). According to the archives of the Imperial worshop, the emperor Yongzheng ordered three sets of five talisman panels in 1731 for the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the hall of Mental Cultivation and the Palace of Heavenly Purity.

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