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AN ENAMELED ‘LANDSCAPE’ PORCELAIN PLAQUE The soft green, slightly gray-toned blue, and orange-red enamels
Signed Cheng Men (active 1862-1908), 1882 appear often in Cheng Men’s works. Compare a ‘landscape’ porcelain
Rectangular and of horizontal orientation, painted principally in plaque sold in these rooms, 14 December 2020, lot 22. For more
grisaille enamels and only touches of color with a figure on horseback examples by Cheng Men, refer to a set of eight enameled porcelain
traveling through a winter landscape of towering cliffs, a waterfall, and plaques, as well as a porcelain vase sold in our London rooms,
bare trees, the upper left inscribed with a poem related to the painted 10 November 2016, lot 175, and 10 November 2011, lot 550,
scene, dated Guangxun renwu (1882), signed Cheng Men, followed respectively.
by two square seals painted in red, framed.
8 1/2 x 12 1/2in (21.5 x 31.7cm) sight
$8,000 - 12,000
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