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A SET OF SIX soapstone-EMBELLISHED
BAMBOO-VENEER PANELS

QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

The six panels are inlaid with painted soapstones onto the

bamboo-veneer background, and depict scenes of ladies and

scholars at various pursuits within pavilions and landscaped

gardens, taken from Wang Shifu’s 14th-century classic Xi Xiang

Ji, ‘Romance of the Western Chamber’. Various scenes include

Zhang Gong and Cui Yingying’s secret night-time rendez-vous,

Yingying’s maid, Hong Niang, intervening between Zhang Gong

and Madam Cui upon her discovery of the affair, Zhang Gong’s

departure to Chang’an for the state examinations, and the scholar’s

dream of himself with his lover, en route to the capital.

9º x 7Ω in. (23.5 x 19 cm.), framed (6)

HK$100,000-150,000 US$13,000-19,000

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