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This magnificent screen combines the two extremely precious 此插屏刻工深峻靈動，運刀圓渾有勁，佈局疏朗有致，層次
materials of ivory and zitan wood and displays such remarkable 豐富分明，無疑為宮廷御製作品。國立故宮博物院藏一對
workmanship as would befit Imperial use. An identical screen of 象牙插屏，現展出在「貴冑榮華- 清代傢俱」展覽中，其中
the same design, size and media is in the collection of the National 一件無論紋飾、大小、雕刻均與本屏一樣 （館藏編號：購-
Palace Museum, Taipei, (fig. 1) and belongs to a pair. Its counterpart, 雜-000010-N000000000）（圖一），另外一件同樣屏心以染
also comprised of a carved ivory panel inset in a zitan stand, depicts 色象牙裝飾，刻畫另外九名學士乘駒出關，沿江遊玩，應為
another nine scholars travelling on horseback alongside a lake, and 前一插屏之延續，兩者題材合為十八學士出遊圖。由此可推
appears to be a continuation of the scene in the first screen. Hence 測，本拍品亦應原屬一對，題材同為十八學士出遊圖。
the pair of screens together form the complete scene of ‘Eighteen
Tavelling Scholars’, a subject frequently depicted on Chinese paintings 嵇若昕在《大觀》雜誌發表的文章「記故宮珍藏恭王府紫檀
and works of art. Based on this, we can surmise that the current 家具」（2012年9月號73-77頁）中指出上述國立故宮藏的一
screen would also have originally been part of a pair, such as the pair 對插屏原為恭親王府藏品，應該是咸豐二年由皇帝賞予恭親
in the National Palace Museum which is currently exhibited in the 王奕訢的四十三件紫檀家具之二，清室覆亡以後世襲恭親王
museum’s permanant display ‘Splendors of Ch’ing Furniture’. 溥偉將府內珍品售予日本古董商山中定次郎，此批家具1949
年後輾轉運到香港，再於1983年由國立故宮博物院購藏。本
Chi Jo-Hsin, former curator of the National Palace Museum, states in 拍品與國立故宮的例子如出一轍，故知應為同一作坊所造，
an essay ‘Prince Kung’s zitan furniture in the National Palace Museum’ 並為內廷陳設品。
in Daguan Monthly (September 2012, vol. 36), that the National
Palace Museum pair of screens were originally from the Prince Kung
Collection, and were likely to be part of the 43 pieces bestowed upon
Prince Kung Yixin by Emperor Xianfeng in 1852. At the end of the
Qing dynasty, the succeeding Prince Kung, Puwei, sold most of the
treasures in his household to the Japanese dealer Sadijiro Yamanaka.
After 1949, the pair of screens came into the hands of J.M. Hu in
Hong Kong, who donated them to Soochow University in Taiwan, and
was later acquired by the National Palace Museum. The current lot,
which is identical to one of a pair in the National Palace Museum, was
undoubtedly made in the same Imperial workshop.

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