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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF VICTOR SHAW 清康熙十二年（1673年） 髹漆加彩刻郭
A TWELVE-PANEL COROMANDEL ‘BIRTHDAY’ 子儀祝壽圖十二扇屏風
SCREEN
DATED KANGXI 12TH YEAR, CORRESPONDING 來源
TO 1673 Dr. Otto Burchard & Co.，柏林
Height 104½ in., 265.4 cm; Dr. Otto Burchard & Co.財產拍賣，Paul Graupe，
Width of each panel 19 in., 48.3 cm 柏林，1935年3月22至23日，編號1240
Frederick Mclean Bugher (1901-1984) 收藏
PROVENANCE
紐約佳士得1984年6月27日，編號389
Dr. Otto Burchard & Co, Berlin.
Liquidation auction of Dr. Otto Burchard & Co., Paul Graupe, 展覽
Berlin, 22nd - 23rd March 1935, lot 1240. 《2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, Oriental Ceramic
Collection of Frederick Mclean Bugher (1901-1984). Society of Hong Kong and the Art Gallery》，香港中文
Christie’s New York, 27th June 1984, lot 389. 大學，香港，1993年，編號109
EXHIBITED 出版
2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, Oriental Ceramic Society W. de Kesel 及 G. Dhont，《Coromandel Lacquer
of Hong Kong and the Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Screens》，根特，2002年，頁33，圖20
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1993, cat. no. 109.
LITERATURE
W. de Kesel and G. Dhont, Coromandel Lacquer Screens,
Ghent, 2002, p. 33, fig. 20.
This colorful and monumental twelve-panel lacquered screen
belongs to a renowned group of screens commissioned
as auspicious birthday gifts for public officials, particularly
popular during the Kangxi period (1662-1722). The splendid
color and condensed composition are characteristics of
the kuancai (款彩) technique, which involves carving out of
a smooth surface, revealing the ground coating, and then
coloring with oil or lacquer pigments.
The plaque Fenyang Fu (汾陽府) ‘Estate of Fenyang’ painted
on the third panel from the right provides a hint about the
subject illustrated. The dignitary depicted at the center of
the screen, Guo Ziyi (郭子儀) (697-781), a famous general
of the Tang dynasty (618-907), who held the title Prince of
Fenyang (汾陽郡王), was considered a personification of
wealth, high rank and longevity.
The long dedicatory inscription carved and filled in with
gold on the reverse states that the screen was made during
the 12th year of the Kangxi reign (1673). A birthday gift for
Tu Yongtai (塗永泰), Deputy Magistrate of Nanhai county,
Guangdong province, the screen was presented by Qi
Wenyou (祁文友), a retired official of Dongguan, Guangdong
province, as well as friends and families of Tu.
A screen made slightly earlier, in the 9th year of the Kangxi
reign (1670), depicting a similar scene, is in the Asian Art
Museum, San Francisco (accession no. B69M52).

∏ $ 60,000-80,000

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