A VERY RARE SET OF FOUR INSCRIBED IMPERIAL CHAMPLEVE ENAMEL LANDSCAPE PANELS

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A VERY RARE SET OF FOUR INSCRIBED IMPERIAL CHAMPLEVE ENAMEL LANDSCAPE PANELS
QIANLONG

Each depicting an idyllic country pavilion within a fenced garden on the shoreside variously among pine and wutong trees before high mountains in the distance below Imperial poetic inscriptions refering to the weather as represented by each scene, one alluding to rain, another mist, another a clear night under the moon, the last wind, each on a gilt sky ground incised with lotus flowers on a dense foliate pattern and set within hardwood frames carved in openwork with figures standing among flowers looking toward the panels, fitted with gilt-bronze chilong hanging brackets (small areas retouched)
the panels
12 3/4 x 25in. (32 x 64cm.) (4)

Lot Essay

A pair of comparable panels, also depicting various seasonal weather conditions, is illustrated and discussed by Gunhild Gabbert Avitabile in Chinesisch und Japanische Cloisonne und Champleve-Arbeiter von 1400 bis 1900, Catalogue, p.168-170, no.95, from the Staatliches Museum fur Volkerkunde, Munich. A single panel from the Pierre Uldry Collection, entitled 'Clear Breeze and Cloudless Moon', is illustrated in the Catalogue, fig.314. Compare also the pair sold in our London Rooms, 6 December 1993, lot 169.

A large zitan screen containing comparable champleve landscape panels is illustrated by Yang Boda, Tributes from Guangdong to the Qing Court, p.107, fig.90

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