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A SET OF FOUR INLAID RED LACQUER The inscriptions refer to famous poems or plays,
PANELS corresponding to the scenes depicted on the
LATE 19TH CENTURY panels:
Each red lacquer panel is of rectangular shape and
Chang Sheng Dian, (the Palace of Eternal Youth),
is inlaid with soapstone, various hardstones, wood
and bone with elaborate garden scenes including a Qing dynasty play written by Hong Sheng (1645
ladies in a fenced terraced garden and fgures -1704).
near a pavilion, all surrounded by various fowers
and trees such as bamboo, prunus, lotus and pine Ren mian tao hua (meeting under peach blossom),
trees. Each panel is inlaid with an inscription. They a phrase that derives from the Tang poem by Cui
are each mounted in a hongmu frame. Hu (772 - 846), referring to a romantic encounter
Each panel, 55¿ (140 cm.) high x 25 in. (63.5 cm.) under fowering peach blossom.
wide
(4) Gui Fei Zui Jiu, (the Drunken Beauty), a Qianlong
period (1736-1795) Beijing Opera about the
£15,000-20,000 $22,000-28,000 famous beauty Yang Guifei of the Tang Dynasty
€18,000-23,000
(618-907).
Er qiao guan shu (Two Beauties Reading) refers
to the story of two beauties from the late Eastern
Han period (184-220), as mentioned in a Song
poem by Qin Guan (1049-1100).
清十九世紀末 漆嵌百寶人物故事圖
掛屏一組四幅
題字:
「長生殿 貴妃醉酒 人面桃花 二
喬觀書」

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