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A SET OF FOUR BRONZE-INSET BLACK LACQUER
‘CALLIGRAPHIC’ PANELS
Mid Qing Dynasty
Each panel inlaid with bronze characters, narrating a section of Ban
Gu’s Preface to the Two Capitals Rhapsody, all within stylised angular
scrollwork borders and mounted frames with key-frets outlined in gilt,
set with gilt-bronze fittings at the top. Each 65.7cm (25 7/8in) high. (4).
£4,000 - 6,000
CNY36,000 - 54,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

清中期 黑漆嵌銅片「兩都賦」掛屏

Ban Gu (32-92 AD) was an historian, stateman and poet. He is best
known for compiling the Book of Han, the second of China’s twenty-
four dynastic histories, after Sima Qian’s Shiji. Ban Gu was also a poet
who mainly wrote in the fu rhapsody form, a literary form that was part
poetry and part prose. The inscription on the present lot is the preface
to his rhapsody. It reads:

...之，蓋奏御者千有餘篇，而後大漢之文章，炳焉... 舊式，國家之遺
美，不可闕也。臣竊或以抒下情...
同見海內清平，朝廷無事，京師宮室，浚城隍，而起苑囿，以備制
度。節兩都賦壹鼎。

The fu describes the palaces of the Western Capital Chang’an (modern
Xi’an) and the Eastern Capital Luoyang, and the activities of the Court
during rituals, banquets, dances, and Imperial hunts. It is a praise of
the glory of the Han dynasty and its courtiers and ministers, and can be
interpreted to represent the glorification of China’s ancient part.

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A VERY LARGE ROOTWOOD SCHOLAR’S ROCK
Qing Dynasty
Modelled in the form of an uneven weathered rock, with angled
protuberances, dramatic crevices, and perforations of various sizes
accentuating the uneven surfaces, the wood of rich reddish-brown
tone. 99cm (39in) high.
£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,000 - 14,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
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清 奇木隨形山子擺件

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