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A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TABLE SCREEN
17th/18th Century
One side decorated in primarily green and blue enamels with highlights
in white and yellow enamel with an idyllic lakeside scene with a
mountainous backdrop with clouds, before buildings and a bridge on a
shoreline near a small ‘Daoist Island’ set with trees and a pavilion, the
other side with a pair of cranes near rockwork and bamboo beneath
the spreading yellow-bloomed branches of an osmanthus tree, the
borders with simple gilt copper edges.
6 7/8 x 5 1/8in (17.4 x 13cm)
$10,000 - 15,000
十七/十八世紀 銅胎掐絲琺瑯仙鶴山水圖插屏

Provenance:
Roger Keverne Ltd., London

來源:
Roger Keverne Ltd., 倫敦

The nearest comparable example to this delightful small table screen
is a larger example illustrated by Beatrice Quette (ed.), Cloisonné,
Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, New York,
2011, pl. 125a & b, pp.288-289, from the Musee des Arts decoratifs,
Paris (no. 23.778), and also exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art,
International Exhibition of Chinese Art, London, 1935-36, no. 1994.

Table screens are relatively uncommon and most published examples
appear to have Daoist subject matter as the main theme. Most
however are slightly larger and depict the immortals themselves on one
side, see Helmut Brinker & Albert Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre
Uldry Collection, New York, Asia Society Galleries, 1989, No’s. 170 &
171.

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