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PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE PRIVATE COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE PRIVATE COLLECTION

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EIGHTEEN SHEETS OF IMPERIAL MARBLED A RARE IMPERIAL INSCRIBED TWO-COLOUR
SUTRA PAPER LACQUER TEA BOWL

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) QIANLONG CARVED SEAL MARK, DATED TO THE CYCLICAL BING
YIN YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1746 AND OF THE PERIOD
Each thin rectangular sheet has a marbled design, stamped with
The bowl is finely carved on the exterior through the outer layer
an oval seal impression, Qianlong nian fang Jinsushan zangjingzhi, of red lacquer with a lengthy poem composed by the emperor
Qianlong and bearing two seals, Qian and Long, all set between
‘Made during the Qianlong period in imitation of Jinsushan sutra bands of ruyi heads above and below, and reserved on a blackish-
brown ground of finely carved leiwen. The base is carved with the
paper’. reign mark.
4 ¡ in. (11.1 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
20 ¿ x 11 ¡ in. (51 x 29 cm.) (18) (18)

HK$100,000-150,000 US$13,000-19,000

HK$400,000-600,000 US$52,000-78,000

PROVENANCE: PROVENANCE

A Japanese private collection, formed during the 1950s and 1960s The Hosokawa Family Collection, acquired during the 1950s and
1960s
The current lot was commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor to imitate Kochukyo, Tokyo
the famed Jinsushan paper, which also has a mottled appearance
and stamped with a small red seal mark. The sutra paper stored LITERATURE
in the Jinsu Temple in Zhejiang Province is said to date from the
Northern Song period and is reputed to have been of excellent quality Hosokawa Morisada, Ittokuroku, Tokyo, 1982, p. 213, pl. 81
for calligraphy. Many connoisseurs wrote in praise of this paper,
including the Qianlong Emperor himself, who composed two poems in The subject matter covered in the poem includes a comparison of the
admiration. Compare to similar paper sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 colour of plum blossom with finger citron, the art of tea preparation
December 2010, lot 3146; 1 June 2011, lot 3626; and 29 May 2013, lot and Buddhist philosophy.
2334.

㖍㛔䥩Ṣ㓞啷炻℞⺢䩳㕤1950⸜ẋ军1960⸜ẋ

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