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A REVERSE-PAINTED AND INSCRIBED IVORY
TABLE SCREEN
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
the rectangular plaque reverse-painted against a black
ground, depicting on one side figures on sampan boats
journeying through a river landscape with pavilions and trees
sheltered amongst cragged rocks, the reverse inscribed in
running script with the Tang poem by Wang Wan entitled Ci
beigu shan xia, the sides of the plaque and the stand similarly
decorated with addorsed archaistic dragons and square
scrolls
overall 19 cm, 7½ in.
◉ HK$ 800,000-1,200,000
US$ 102,000-153,000
The river landscape on the present table screen is rendered
through a complex process of reverse decoration, in which
the landscape and the figures are reserved in the natural
colour of the ivory material against the black lacquer ground.
For a related reverse-decorated ivory table screen with
figures in a landscape, see one included in the exhibition
Chinese Ivories from the Shang to the Qing, Oriental Ceramic
Society and the British Museum, London, 1984, no. 162.
清康熙
象牙黑漆地留白泛舟圖題唐詩硯屏

唐王灣《次北固山下》
客路青山外，行舟綠水前。
潮平兩岸闊，風正一帆懸。
海日生殘夜，江春入舊年。
鄉書何處達？歸雁洛陽邊。

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