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PROPERTY FROM THE QUINCY CHUANG COLLECTION
莊貴侖先生舊藏
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AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF CARVED CINNABAR The exceptional quality of carving on the current boxes are undoubtedly of
LACQUER ‘LANDSCAPE’ IMPERIAL LOBED imperial quality, and the landscapes depicted are very likely inspired by real
landscapes near the Forbidden City in Beijing, such as famous ‘Eight Views
BOXES AND COVERS of Yanjing (Beijing)’, which are captured by an imperial set of eight album

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) leaves painted by the Qianlong-period scholar-official Zhang Ruocheng
(1721-1770). In particular, one can find parallels between the boxes and the
Each box is carved to the cover with a detailed landscape within a album leaf ‘Ji Men fei yue’ (Windswept rain at the Ji Gate) (fig. 2), as seen
lobed medallion within formal borders, the sides are carved with in the gently rolling mountains and small huts nestled among straight
sixteen rectangular cartouches each containing a different floral sprig towering trees. This album is now preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
against a diaper-ground, all reserved on a dense lotus meander, the illustrated on the museum website.
similarly shaped foot encircled by a keyfret border.
11¿ in. (28.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box (2) 清乾隆 御製剔紅開光山水花卉紋花口式蓋盒一對
HK$900,000-1,200,000 US$120,000-150,000
來源:
P R O V E NAN C E : 日本昭憲皇太后舊藏（根據日本木盒上之題識）
Formerly in the Japanese Imperial Family collection (according to 香港佳士得，2005年11月29日，拍品1561號
the inscription of the Japanese wood box)
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 November 2005, lot 1561 此拍品日本木盒上書有題識：「大正三年八月下賜日本昭憲皇太后宮御
遺品」。昭憲皇太后（1849-1914年）為日本明治天皇之皇后、大正天皇之
嫡母。大正三年即公元1914年(圖一）。
The Japanese wood box accompanying this lot bears an inscription, and
records the lacquer boxes as having been given in August of the third year 此對蓋盒漆面厚潤，雕工利落有勁，蓋上所刻畫之山水圖很有可能以京師
of the Taisho reign (1912-1925), corresponding to 1914, and were from the 皇城附近之風景作藍本。例如乾隆文臣張若澄所繪之《燕山八景圖》冊，
personal collection of the Queen Mother Shioken (1849-1914), who was 以北京著名的「燕京八景」為題，當中〈薊門飛雨〉一頁（圖二），山巒連綿，
the Empress of the Meiji Emperor (1868-1911) (fig.1). 茂木筆挺，茅屋錯落，與本盒上之山水不謀而合。《燕山八景圖》冊現藏
北京故宮博物院，登錄於博物院官方網頁。

fig. 1 Wood box accompanying the current lot fig. 2 Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
圖一 本拍品隨附之木盒 圖二 北京故宮博物院藏品

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