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8181 A QIANJIANGCAI ENAMELED PORCELAIN PLAQUE
A SET OF TWO FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED PORCELAIN MOUNTED AS A TABLE SCREEN
PLAQUES Late Qing/Republic period
Jurentang marks, Republic Period The plaque depicting the legendary grouping of seven historical
Each rectangular plaque painted in scenes of female figures in poets and writers from the 3rd century CE known as the Seven
garden settings, the painting finely executed in shades of green and Sages of the Bamboo Grove engaged in the four accomplishments
blue heightened with gilt and other pigments, each bearing an iron expected of a gentleman: mastery of the stringed instrument qin,
red Jurentang seal mark. shown in its cloth cover held by one figure, the game of chess (qi)
10 1/4 x 15 1/4in (26 x 38.7cm) being played by two scholars seated in the lower left, calligraphy
(shu) about to be written on a rock face by a figure in the upper left,
US$5,000 - 7,000 and painting (hua) being examined by the figures at the right, below
the inscription reading Zhulin Qi Xian (Seven Sages of the Bamboo
A set of four similar porcelain plaques, also bearing the Jurentang Grove) and bearing the signature of the late Qing dynasty ceramicist
mark was sold in these rooms 17 December 2013, lot 8361. Yu Huanwen; the plaque set within a mixed wood frame supported in
an elaborate pieced and reticulated stand with transverse feet.
16 1/2 x 10in (42 x 25.5cm) sight dimensions of plaque
29in (73.6cm) height including stand

US$3,000 - 5,000

Provenance
acquired in the 1950s by a family in Portland, Oregon, by repute

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