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The Property of a Gentleman 紳士藏品

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A rare moulded and carved ink cake ‘Lanting Xu’
table screen and stands
Qianlong six-character mark and probably of the period
The solid ink screen carved on one side with a scene of the Lanting
Gathering with guests seated in amiable clusters on promontories
beside a flowing river bearing wine cups balanced on floating lotus
leaves, the guests equipped with brushes, ink stones and scrolls
for their poetic compositions, the details highlighted in green and
red, all within a gilt border of stylised confronted chilong, the reverse
with an inscription within a similar border, one edge of the screen
with the six-character Qianlong mark and the other with the five-
character mark yan qu lou zhen cang, each of the stands with a pair
of confronted gilt and red chilong dragons on one side, fitted box.
The screen 25.1cm (9 7/8in) high; overall 29.5cm (11 5/8in) high
when assembled (4).
£50,000 - 80,000
HK$620,000 - 1,000,000 CNY490,000 - 790,000
或清乾隆 蘭亭序圖插屏式墨，連座 「大清乾隆年製」及「延趣樓珍
藏」楷書款
Provenance: a Swiss private collection; according to the owner, in
the family since the 19th century
來源：瑞士私人收藏；據說是由十九世紀起的家族藏品

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