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TABLE BASSE EN BOIS INCRUSTEE D'UNE PLAQUE EN
PORCELAINE BLEU BLANC, KANGZHUO
LA PLAQUE: CHINE, DYNASTIE QING,
EPOQUE JIAQING (1796-1820)
LA TABLE: CHINE, DEBUT DU XXEME SIECLE
Reposant sur quatre petits pieds droits, la ceinture est sculptée
de volutes géométriques sur les côtés. La grande plaque carrée
en porcelaine bleu blanc est finement décorée de chauves-souris,
double-poissons, pierres sonores, fleurs épanouies et rinceaux
feuillagés. Le centre est rehaussé d'une rosace délicatement
formée par neuf pêches de longévité. La bordure est ornée de
chauves-souris volant parmi des nuages.
Dimensions de la plaque: 63,5 x 63,5 cm. (25 x 25 in.)
Dimensions de la table: 81 x 81 x 43 cm. (31√ x 31√ x 17 in.)
€15,000-20,000 US$18,000-23,000
£14,000-18,000
A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN PLAQUE SET WITHIN A
WOOD LOW TABLE, KANGZHUO
THE PORCELAIN: CHINA, QING DYNASTY,
JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820)
THE TABLE: CHINA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
清嘉慶 木嵌青花福慶有餘紋瓷板炕桌
桌架：二十世紀初
來源:
法國私人舊藏
PROVENANCE:
Previously from a French private collection.

A blue and white porcelain inlaid black lacquer bed, dated
Kangxi period, is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing,
illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum - Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (II), Hong
Kong, 2002, pl. 3. Another comparable hongmu low table with a
rectangular blue and white porcelain top, dated Jiaqing period, is
illustrated by Tian Jiaqing in Classic Chinese Furniture of the Qing
Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, Fig. 24 (fig.1.).

fig.1. A hongmu table with a blue and white porcelain
plaque, Jiaqing period.

See a closely related square blue and white ‘Buddhist Emblem’
plaque, also set within a hongmu table, dated 18-19th century,
sold in Christie’s London, 10 May 2011, lot 199. Also see a
slightly smaller square famille rose porcelain plaque depicting
similar subject, dated late Qianlong-early Jiaqing period, sold
in Sotheby’s Paris, 18 December 2012, lot 138. A rectangular
famille rose plaque depicting the Eight Buddhist Emblems
surrounding the same type of ‘nine-peach-roundel’ is in the
collection of the musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet,
Paris (inventory no. MG 8050).

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