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A RARE INSCRIBED AND DATED SIX-PANEL LACQUER SCREEN PROVENANCE:
DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO THE SIXTH YEAR OF THE WANLI Private Northern Italian Collection.
PERIOD, CORRESPONDING TO 1579
The beautiful composition of this unusual, early lacquer screen is laden with
It is boldly decorated in tones of white, brownish-black, green and red lacquer
symbolism. Spotted deer are associated with Daoist beliefs of immortality
with a carved design depicting a pair of spotted deer resting on a riverbank
next to graphically rendered rocks in a landscape of pine, prunus and bamboo. and their presence beneath a pine tree reinforces the message of longevity.
The poetic inscription eulogises the scene of pine and deer, and the smaller A comparable but slightly later inscribed six-panel lacquer screen with the
script states that this was made during Spring in the third month of the sixth same decorative palette and subject, dated to the 22nd year of Kangxi,
year of Wanli, following a drawing by Liu Tingfang and engraved by Chen corresponding to 1684, was sold at Sotheby's Paris, Pierre Bergé: From One
Guangxian. Home To Another, on 30 October 2018, lot 12.
Each panel 80⅛ in. (203.6 cm.) high, 23¼ in. (59 cm.) wide

£80,000-120,000 US$110,000-160,000
€93,000-140,000
明萬曆六年(1579年) 彩漆松鹿同春詩文六方屏
詩文: 草深宜伏鹿 松老欲成龍

來源: 意大利北部私人珍藏
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