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THE PROPERTY OF A BELGIAN FAMILY 比利時家族藏品
Lots 249 - 250

249 WT
A HUANGHUALI TWELVE-PANEL SCREEN
19th century
Each panel carved with openwork designs of archaistic interlocking
and confronting chilong amidst shou medallions and shaped
medallions inlaid with jade and soapstone depicting the Eighteen
Luohan and scenes with antiques, the central panels inset with
paintings depicting the birthday celebration for the Queen Mother
of the West, the reverse with dedicatory couplets on a gold ground
cyclically dated to Dingchou year, corresponding to AD1817.
175cm (69in) high x 438cm (172 1/2in) wide

£6,000 - 8,000 CNY55,000 - 73,000
HK$66,000 - 88,000

Robert Everts (1875-1942) 十九世紀 黃花梨嵌群仙祝壽圖十二開屏風
256 | BONHAMS 「龍飛嘉慶歲在強赤奮若九月朔日（AD1817）」楷書紀年款

Provenance: Robert Everts (1875-1942), Belgian Ambassadorial
Envoy to Beijing from 1910 to 1916 and again from 1920 to 1924,
and thence by descent
A distinguished Belgian private collection, acquired from the above
in 1970

來源： Robert Everts先生(1875-1942)舊藏，1910至1916年以及1920
至1924年間任比利時駐京代表團使節；並由後人保存迄今
顯貴比利時私人收藏，購於1970年

Compare with a related Ming/Qing huanghuali twelve-panel screen
with calligraphy, illustrated in In Pursuit of Antiquities: Thirty-fifth
Anniversary Exhibition of the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong, 1995,
pl.266.