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A VERY RARE IMPERIAL INSCRIBED 清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯御製詩洋菊圖掛屏
CLOISONNE ENAMEL RECTANGULAR 詩文： 海西奇種晚秋叢，標節含芳迥鮮同。繪幀早添新物色，
PANEL 瓦盆不改舊家風。瀼瀼露氾霞殤紫，晭晭曦承傘蓋
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) 紅。驀地若逢陶徵士，柴桑應未識籬東。御製洋菊詩。
The rectangular panel is finely decorated with three pots of 臣王際華敬書
chrysanthemum with petals finely rendered in pink, white, red and 印：臣華、敬書
yellow enamels against wan-character diaper, all below a gilt poem
by the Qianlong Emperor praising chrysanthemums, followed 來源
by the two characters Yuzhi (Imperial Poem), and an inscription 德國私人珍藏，入藏於 1911 年前（據傳）
signed by Wang Jihua (Respectfully inscribed by your servant Lemperts Cologne，2006 年 6 月，拍品 212 號
Wang Jihua), and two seals chen Hua and jingshu.
32√ x 56º in. (83.5 x 142.5 cm.) with huali frame and gilt bronze 詩為乾隆於己卯年（1759）所作，題為「洋菊」，載於《御製詩二集》，
dragon hanger 卷九十（圖一）。
HK$6,000,000-8,000,000 US$780,000-1,000,000 王際華（1771-1776），字秋瑞，浙江錢塘（今杭州）人。乾隆十年進士，
官至戶部尚書。乾隆年間修《四庫全書》時充總裁，兼武英殿事。工書
PROVENANCE 法。
German private collection, acquired in Beijing prior to 1911 (by
repute) 沈陽故宮博物院藏一對掐絲琺瑯牡丹芍藥掛屏，同為王際華敬書，著錄
Sold at Lemperts, Cologne, June 2006, lot 212 於《沈陽故宮博物院院藏文物精粹 - 琺瑯卷》，2007 年，沈陽，237-
239 頁。另可參考一件亦為王際華敬書之掐絲琺瑯御製詩雉雞牡丹紋掛
The poem on the present panel, composed by the Qianlong Emperor, is 屏，拍賣於香港佳士得，2014 年 5 月 28 日，拍品 3015 號。
recorded in Yuzhi Shiji, Compilation of Imperial Poems, vol. 2, juan 90,
dated 1759 (fig. 1). 本拍品與一幅錢維城 (1720-1772) 作《盛菊圖》之畫面佈局基本一致，
The inscription following the poem includes the name Wang Jihua 且書同一首御題詩，拍賣於北京保利，2010 年 12 月 4 日，拍品 3645 號
(1717-1776), a native of Xiantang (present day Hangzhou in Zhejiang （圖二）。
province), who served as a high official at the court of the Qianlong
Emperor. Wang managed the Wuying Hall in the Forbidden City, a 乾隆對於菊花格外鐘愛，曾於二十一年（1756）命鄒一桂繪《洋菊譜》，
storehouse for various rare books and archives. Cloisonné enamel 定以佳名，而御題其上。後多位大臣亦繪製捲軸，如北京故宮博物院所
panels depicting brids and flowers with Imperial poems and signature 藏汪承霈作《洋菊四十四種圖卷》，每株菊花旁均附乾隆為其所題之詩。
of Wang Jihua are rare. Compare to a pair of cloisonné enamel ’peony’
panels, illustrated in The Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang 乾隆帝亦繪製多幅菊花墨寶，其對菊花的喜愛程度可見一斑。
Imperial Palace Museum, The Enamel Volume, Shenyang, 2005, pp.237-
239. Compare also a panel depicting pheasants standing among rocks
and flowers, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3015.
The current cloisonné panel is almost identical in composition to an
ink and colour on paper hanging scroll by Qian Weicheng (1720-1772),
which also bears the same Imperial poem, sold at Beijing Poly, 4
December 2010, lot 3645 (fig. 2).

fig. 1 fig. 2
圖一 圖二
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