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See couch beds with richly carved panels in the Qing court collection,
notably a zitan longwen chuang illustrated in Gugong Boyuancang
wenwu zhenpin quanji, 54, Ming Qing jiaju (xia), no. 12, carved with
elaborate kui dragons, a Qianlong hongmu luohan chuang carved with
nine dragons, no. 7, and another zitan and nanmu chuang elaborately
carved with landscape and figural panels, no. 9.

The current lot is a fine and rare example of this complex history – the
back and side panels carved with scenes of immortals in verdant
landscape settings, framed by phoenix and dragons emerging from
thick, wondrous clouds. See a smaller zitan luohan chuang from
the Lin Muhe Collection of closely related subject matter published
Fenghua Zaijian. Ming Qing jiaju shoucang zhan. Splendor of Style:
Classical Furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. National
Museum of History. June 26 to September 5, 1999, pp 110-111.

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