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A MAGNIFICENT TWELVE-FOLD COROMANDEL LACQUER
SCREEN
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The screen is carved with a procession of warriors and equestrian Coromandel lacquer, or kuancai, emerged in the 16th century in China aimed
figures, some carrying banners, others bearing gifts, journeying through a at the domestic market. It was a new innovation and a challenge for Chinese
mountainous, rocky landscape towards a high-ranking dignatory flanked lacquer craftsmen to produce large and highly decorative screens more
by his attendants, next to a raised terrace with a pair of white elephants, the economically, in order to replace the very expensive and labour-intensive
scene bordered with panels of flowers including prunus, chrysanthemum and
peonies. The reverse is carved with scholars travelling within a mountainous lacquer screens decorated with mother-of-pearl inlays. The borders of
landscape with a large lake with bridges, pavilions and islands within a border the present screen may be stylistically compared with the twelve-panel
of scholars' objects and mythical beasts. Coromandel lacquer screen from the Kangxi period in the Victoria and Albert
245 1/4 in. x 102 3/8 in. (623 cm. x 260 cm.), overall Museum illustrated by W. De Kesel and G. Dhont in Coromandel Lacquer
Each panel 102 3/8 in. x 20 in. (260 cm. x 51 cm.) Screens, ill. 23, pps 36-37. Similarly, some of the scenes on the reverse of the
present screen bear comparsion to the screen in the Asian Art Musuem of
£60,000-80,000 US$77,000-100,000
€66,000-88,000 San Francisco decorated with the "Eight Views of Hangzhou", and illustrated
in the same publication, ill. 47, p 71.
PROVENANCE:
Property from a private Amercian collector, Lynn Wolfson, acquired in the
1950s. 清康熙 髹漆加彩刻人物故事圖十二扇屏風
來源:
美國 Lynn Wolfson夫人舊藏, 於1950年代購入

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