Page 128 - Christies May 9, 2017 Kensington

~*117

A BROWN-GLAZED ‘PAINTING AND POEM’ WEIGHT
18TH-19TH CENTURY

The square tile is decorated to one side based upon the ‘Bird and Apricot
Blossoms’ painting by the Five Dynasties’ painter Huang Quan, with a
bird perched upon a fowering apricot branch amongst bamboo, with an
apocryphal signature Chengdu Huang Quan, with two seals reading Huang
and Quan. The reverse is inscribed with a Qianlong poem regarding the
painting, inscribed and dated yiwei year with two seals reading Qian and Long.
4 in. (10.2 cm.) long

£8,000-12,000 $11,000-15,000
€9,300-14,000

This tile is based upon the ffth ink cake in a set of nine commissioned by
Emperor Qianlong entitled Yu bi ti hua shi mo, ‘Imperially inscribed painting
and poem ink cakes’ which are in the collection of The Palace Museum,
Beijing. The subject of the ink cake set are nine classic paintings by eight
artists, each paired with a poem composed by Qianlong Emperor.

Huang Quan (903-965) was a celebrated painter from Chengdu in Sichuan
Province, he was best known for his naturalistic depiction of birds and
fowers.

清十八/十九世紀 褐釉詩文花鳥圖紙鎮

126