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PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION The rich gilt ground of the present example is unusual but
A TWELVE-PANEL LACQUER ‘FLORAL’ not without precedent. An example of a coromandel screen
COROMANDEL SCREEN with a central gilt ground depicting immortals on one side
and birds and flowers against a blue ground on the reverse, is
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY in the Palace Collection, Beijing and illustrated The Complete
Height 113 in., 287 cm; Width of each panel 18½ in., 47 cm Collection of Ming and Qing Furniture in the Palace Museum,
vol. 20, Beijing, 2015, pp 528-529.
PROVENANCE
$ 30,000-50,000
Christie’s New York, 23rd July 2003, lot 688.
Compositions depicting an array of identifiable flowers
were popular during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Individual 清十八 / 十九世紀 髹漆加彩刻花鳥圖十
flowers held specific meaning that collectively signified 二扇屏風
auspicious wishes for a long life and a large, prosperous
family. A screen with nearly identical subject matter is 來源
illustrated in W. de Kessel and G. Dhont, Coromandel Lacquer
Screens, Gent, 2002, p. 59, pl. 39. 紐約佳士得2003年7月23日，編號688

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