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A COROMANDEL LACQUER EIGHT-LEAF ‘PALACE LADIES’ Provenance: a Spanish private collection
SCREEN
Cyclically dated to the Gengwu year corresponding to AD1670 and 來源：西班牙私人收藏
of the period
Skillfully decorated on the front with a detailed scene of court ladies Palace scenes with ladies of the court were popular in the late Ming
within a palatial landscape engaged in various leisurely pursuits, all and early Qing periods. According to W.De Kesel and G.Dhont,
above the ‘Hundred Antiques’, the reverse depicting numerous birds these screens of palaces and ladies were often based on a
including egrets, crane, pheasants and mandarin ducks all beside frequently-reproduced painting by Qiu Ying (1494-1552) known as
blossoming peonies and trees. ‘Spring Morning in the Han Palace’. See W.De Kesel and G.Dhont,
335.6cm (140in) wide x 211.4cm (83 1/4in) high. (8). Coromandel: Lacquer Screens, 2002, Gent, pp.48-49. The popularity
of scenes with predominantly female figures engaging in various activities
£12,000 - 18,000 including the ‘Four Arts of the Scholar’ may reflect changing models of
CNY110,000 - 160,000 feminine identity by the late Ming and early Qing dynasties; ladies in terms
of cultural refinement, may have been considered almost equal to male
清康熙庚戌年間（1670年） 褐漆彩繪樓閣園遊圖八開屏風 literati. Similar twelve-leaf screens, Kangxi, are illustrated by W.De Kesel
and G.Dhont, Ibid., pp.23,31, and 36.
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