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PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION ‘Spring Morning in the Han Palace’ was a popular subject examples such as a twelve-panel screen in the collection of 清康熙 髹漆加彩刻漢宮春曉圖十二扇
A TWELVE-PANEL LACQUER ‘FIGURAL’ for coromandel screens of the Kangxi period. The lively the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 屏風
COROMANDEL SCREEN scene is inspired by a tale, immortalized by the Ming dynasty D.C., see W. De Kesel and G. Dhont, Coromandel Lacquer
artist Qiu Ying (1494-1552), in which a Han noblewoman,
Screens, Gent, n.d., pp 48-54, pl. 31-34. Compare also a
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD Lady Wang, married the ruler of an invading nomadic tribe twelve-panel coromandel screen depicting the ‘Spring 來源
Height 123 in., 312 cm; Width of each panel 25 in., 63.5 cm to bring peace to the Han kingdom. Symbolizing idealized Palace’, attributed to the Kangxi period, illustrated in Robert 蘇富比 Parke Bernet，紐約，1980年6月5日，編號1292
womanhood, depictions invariably feature elegant ladies D. Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley, Classical Chinese
PROVENANCE engaged in a variety of worthy pursuits amid a lavish setting Furniture in the Minneapolis Museum of Art, Belgium, 1999,
of palace pavilions and gardens. no. 55, pp 159-161. A screen of the same subject matter
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 5th June 1980, lot 1292. and with flowers and birds on the reverse, like the present
The present screen is distinguished by its finely carved
details such as the architectural elements, the carefully example, is in the Penn Museum, Philadelphia and described
composed groupings of women, the ornamental rockwork in John Getz, The University Museum Section of Oriental Art,
and the towering trees enclosed in slatted fences. For a Philadelphia, 1917, p. 261, no. 400. Compare also a similar
discussion of this type of screen and illustrations of similar screen sold in these room, 15th September 2010, lot 426.
$ 60,000-80,000
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