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Cloisonné-enamel plaques rendered in ruyi-form are very rare. The quality 此對屏構圖疏朗有序，造工精湛上乘，色彩悅目清麗。如意形的掐絲琺瑯
of the present pair is remarkable for their skilful execution of the details, 大型掛屏寥寥無幾，故本屏實屬難能可貴的藝術珍品。相似的掐絲琺瑯龍
and the successful use of the varying colour tones of the enamels. The
scene with figures paddling on colourful boats with dragon heads was 舟圖如意形屏似僅有一例經出版，為美國三藩市亞洲藝術博物館藏品，源
inspired by the jovial dragon boat festival which falls annually on the 5th 自Avery Brundage珍藏，圖見Claudia Brown著《Cloisonn é: Chinese
day of the lunar 5 month. The only other published pair of the same Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties》，紐約，2011
th
dragon boat scene, from the Avery Brundage Collection (B62M63b), is 年，頁54，圖3.41；其中一屏另刊登于Quette《Cloisonn é: Chinese
in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, and one of which is illustrated Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties》，紐約，2011
by B. Quette (ed.), Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and
Qing Dynasties, New York, 2011, p. 54, fig. 3.41. Compare a related ruyi- 年，頁54，圖版3.41。另參考一件如意掛屏，為畢曉普先生和張宗憲先生舊
form panel of a larger size (106 cm. wide) decorated with flowers and an 藏，2016年5月30日於香港佳士得《三十週年誌慶拍賣：世紀珍藏》拍賣，
imperial inscription, from the collections of Heber R. Bishop and Robert 拍品3028號。
Chang, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 Years: The Sale, 30 May 2016,
lot 3028.

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