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A VERY RARE IMPERIAL BUFFALO HORN-
INLAID AND PAINTED WOOD PANEL
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
the rectangular panel ornately inlaid with intricately carved
buffalo horn in various levels of relief, depicting a riverside
landscape with two figures crossing a bridge, above a further
figure steering a sampan boat in the river, set in a rocky
mountainous landscape with cottages and huts sheltered
amongst tall trees, accompanied with a jade-inlaid poetic
inscription followed by two Qianlong seals, all reserved against
a painted greenish-blue ground in the foreground simulating
the river, gradating to a rich blue tone towards the upper part
forming the sky, the wood frame set with an archaistic bronze
double-phoenix handle
64 by 89.8 cm, 25¼ by 35⅜ in., overall 74 by 99.2 cm, 29⅛
by 39 in.
HK$ 300,000-400,000
US$ 38,400-51,500

清乾隆 御題水牛角雕「白門」掛屏
「得象外意」、「乾隆宸翰」印
御題：
當日宣陽築六朝，雕欒鏤楶久沈銷。
白門名獨傳闤闠，道是依稀內小橋。

Qing Gaozong yuzhi shiwen quanji [Anthology of imperial Qianlong
poems and proses], Yuzhi shi san ji [Imperial poetry, vol. 3], juan
49, p. 23
《清高宗御製詩文全集．御製詩三集》，卷49，頁23

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