An Important Dated Twelve-Panel Coromandel Lacquer Screen
Dated to the Dingmao Year, of the Reign of Kangxi, Corresponding to 1687
Presumably depicting the birthday celebrations of the owner of the screen in the lavish setting of his mansion and its extensive grounds, the dignitary seated in a central reception hall enjoying the spectacle of dancing ladies as friends and officials approach to pay tribute, the garden with outer pavilions, covered walkways and a small stream, the boundaries delineated by a tiled wall, on the other side of which wait the grooms and horses, the upper panels with details of antiquities, the side and lower panels with an array of animals including dragons amidst clouds, the reverse inscribed with a long dedication in kaishu enclosed by a shou-medallion border, the upper sections of the panels with baskets of flowers and scholars' objects, the lower sections crisply detailed with the flowers of the seasons
Each panel: 112 x 19in. (284.5 x 49.5cm.)
An Important Dated Twelve-Panel Coromandel Lacquer Screen
Dated to the Dingmao Year, of the Reign of Kangxi, Corresponding to 1687
Presumably depicting the birthday celebrations of the owner of the screen in the lavish setting of his mansion and its extensive grounds, the dignitary seated in a central reception hall enjoying the spectacle of dancing ladies as friends and officials approach to pay tribute, the garden with outer pavilions, covered walkways and a small stream, the boundaries delineated by a tiled wall, on the other side of which wait the grooms and horses, the upper panels with details of antiquities, the side and lower panels with an array of animals including dragons amidst clouds, the reverse inscribed with a long dedication in kaishu enclosed by a shou-medallion border, the upper sections of the panels with baskets of flowers and scholars' objects, the lower sections crisply detailed with the flowers of the seasons
Each panel: 112 x 19in. (284.5 x 49.5cm.)
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