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The present panel is a fine example of the exceptional 本掛屏雕工卓越，刻劃各羅漢形像精細入微，姿態、神情
workmanship achieved by lacquer carvers of the Qianlong 栩栩如生，實乃乾隆年間雕漆藝匠成就之佳例。掛屏御
period and is particularly notable for its well-preserved
題，描述屏上雕刻八羅漢形像。
condition. It is meticulously detailed with each figure carefully
executed, paying close attention to aspects such as facial 與此屏成對之剔漆八羅漢屏，B Arthur Bowdich Cottell 中
expressions and body gestures. The inscription seen on the
校舊藏，售於倫敦蘇富比2009年11月4日，編號123。與
panel recorded in Qing Gaozong yuzhi shiwen quanji [Anthology
此品相接近之剔漆掛屏，僅有數例。比較一例，尺寸造型
of imperial Qianlong poems and proses], Yuzhi wen chu ji
[Imperial proses, vol. 1], juan 29: zan, pp. 2-3 provides a detailed 相近，刻劃童子嬉戲於庭院湖泊間，售於紐約佳士得2000
description of the eight luohan figures carved on the panel. 年3月21日，編號67，再售於倫敦2002年11月12日，編
The pair to this panel, from the collection of Lieutenant colonel 號37。另可比較倫敦佳士得2005年7月12日出售一例，
Arthur Bowdich Cottell, was sold in our London rooms, 4th 編號148，雕乾隆年間清軍出征情境，並題乾隆五十三年
November 2009, lot 123. Only a small number of panels
（1788年）詩一首。倫敦佳士得另售一例，1975年6月9
of this type are extant today; see one of similar form and
dimensions, carved with a scene of boys playing in a garden 日，編號125，刻劃西王母及眾仙形像。
setting surrounded by lakes and pavilions, sold at Christie’s
New York, 21st March 2000, lot 67, and again in London, 12th
November 2002, lot 37. Compare also a large panel carved in
a related manner with a battle scene from one of the Qianlong
Emperor’s military campaigns, sold at Christie’s London,
12th July 2005, lot 148, inscribed with a poem dated to 1788.
Compare also a panel sold at Christie’s London, 9th June 1975,
lot 125, carved with various groups of immortals, including the
Queen Mother of the West, Xiwangmu.

Qing Gaozong yuzhi shiwen quanji [Anthology of imperial Qianlong poems and proses],
Yuzhi wen chu ji [Imperial proses, vol. 1], juan 29: zan, pp. 2-3
《清高宗御製詩文全集．御製文初集》，卷29：贊，頁2-3
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