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TABLE BASSE EN LAQUE QIANGJIN ET TIANQI, ANJI
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIEME-XVIIIEME SIECLE
Elle est de forme rectangulaire sur deux pieds recourbés. A décor laqué rouge, The decorative motifs of buddhist lions playing brocade balls on the present
vert, ocre et brun (tianqi), incisé et souligné à l'or (qiangjin), elle est finement stand are beautifully executed. Compare with the more stylised gamboling
ornée de lions bouddhiques jouant avec une balle parmi des rinceaux de lotus. lions in pursuit of brocade balls enamelled on the exterior of a bowl dated to
Longueur: 70 cm. (27Ω in.) the Ming dynasty Jingtai period, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in
Largeur: 17 cm. (6æ in.) Zhongguo Meishu Quanji: Gongyi meishu bian, vol. 10, Beijing, 1987, no.301.
Profondeur: 30 cm. (11æ in.)
Compare with an incised and gilt lacquered low table decorated with bats and
€15,000-20,000 US$18,000-24,000
£14,000-18,000 Wan symbols sold at Sotheby's London, 11 May 2011, lot 154 and two large
tianqi lacquer tables decorated with peonies and scrollwork sold at Sotheby's
PROVENANCE: New York, 26 March 1996, lot 281; and 19th September 1975, lot 138.
Previously from a French private collection.
A QIANGJIN AND TIANQI 'DANCING LION' STAND, ANJI
The technique tianqi, known as 'lacque cuir' in French or 'leather lacquer', CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
involves the building up of layers of lacquer over wood covered in hemp cloth. 清十七/十八世紀 戧金填漆獅滾綉球紋案几
Each layer is left to dry and then polished down; once thick enough the design
is incised on the surface and these areas are outlined with gilt and filled in 來源:
with lacquers of various colours including tones of red ochre, green, black and 法國私人舊藏
brown. This extremely time-consuming technique would have been expensive
and furniture, such as the current lot, would therefore have been reserved for
the elite.

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