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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF VICTOR SHAW 清康熙十二年（1673年） 髹漆加彩刻郭 This colorful and monumental twelve-panel lacquered screen The long dedicatory inscription carved and filled in with
A TWELVE-PANEL COROMANDEL ‘BIRTHDAY’ 子儀祝壽圖十二扇屏風 belongs to a renowned group of screens commissioned gold on the reverse states that the screen was made during
SCREEN as auspicious birthday gifts for public officials, particularly the 12th year of the Kangxi reign (1673). A birthday gift for
Tu Yongtai (塗永泰), Deputy Magistrate of Nanhai county,
popular during the Kangxi period (1662-1722). The splendid
DATED KANGXI 12TH YEAR, CORRESPONDING 來源 color and condensed composition are characteristics of Guangdong province, the screen was presented by Qi Wenyou
TO 1673 Frederick Mclean Bugher (1901-1984) 收藏 the kuancai (款彩) technique, which involves carving out of (祁文友), a retired official of Dongguan, Guangdong province,
Height 104½ in., 265.4 cm; Width of each panel 19 in., 48.3 cm 紐約佳士得1984年6月27日，編號389 a smooth surface, revealing the ground coating, and then as well as friends and families of Tu.
coloring with oil or lacquer pigments. A screen made slightly earlier, in the 9th year of the Kangxi
展覽
PROVENANCE The plaque Fenyang Fu (汾陽府) ‘Estate of Fenyang’ painted reign (1670), depicting a similar scene, is in the Asian Art
《2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, Oriental Ceramic
Collection of Frederick Mclean Bugher (1901-1984). on the third panel from the right provides a hint about the Museum, San Francisco (accession no. B69M52).
Christie’s New York, 27th June 1984, lot 389. Society of Hong Kong and the Art Gallery》，香港中文 subject illustrated. The dignitary depicted at the center of the
大學，香港，1993年，編號109 screen, Guo Ziyi (郭子儀) (697-781), a famous general of the
Tang dynasty (618-907), who held the title Prince of Fenyang
EXHIBITED 出版 (汾陽郡王), was considered a personification of wealth, high
2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, Oriental Ceramic Society of W. de Kesel 及 G. Dhont，《Coromandel Lacquer rank and longevity.
Hong Kong and the Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Screens》，根特，2002年，頁33，圖20
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1993, cat. no. 109.

LITERATURE
W. de Kesel and G. Dhont, Coromandel Lacquer Screens,
Ghent, 2002, p. 33, fig. 20.

∏ $ 80,000-120,000

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