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PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST COLLECTION
~1228
AN IMPERIAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL RECTANGULAR WALL The inscription on the current panel, depicting an Autumn scene, is from a
PANEL DECORATED WITH VILLAGE SCENE series on the Four Seasons, recorded in Yuzhi Shiji, (Compilation of Imperial
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) Poems), vol. 2, juan 55, dated 1755.
The panel is inscribed with a poem describing the enjoyment of farming and Although the poem was composed by the Qianlong Emperor, the calligraphy is
rural life style, followed by a signature Yu Minzhong and two seals reading chen based on that of Yu Minzhong (1714-1779). Yu was an influential official at court
Yu Minzhong (your humble servant Minzhong) and jing shu (I am respectfully who gained the title of Zhuang Yuan having ranked first in the Imperial civil
handing in this poem to your Majesty) service examination in 1737, and was responsible for the compilation of Siku
26æ in. x14¿ in. (67.5 cm. x 35.9 cm.), hardwood frame Quanshu (the complete Library of the Four Treasures).

$80,000-120,000 Two similar panels depicting landscape scenes and also with calligraphy by
Yu Minzhong are in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, published
PROVENANCE: in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum - Enamels (3) - Cloisonné
Acquired in New York in the early twentieth century, and thence by descent to in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Beijing, 2011, nos. 63 and 64. Another similar
the current owner. example with Yu's calligraphy, and representing Spring, is in the collection of
the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Enamel Ware in the Ming and
清̖隆ǎ掐絲琺瑯㏏家樂圖た文掛屏 Ch'ing Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, pl. 45. (Fig. 1) Being of the same size and with
similar decoration, the current panel and the Taipei panel may have belonged
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to the same set.
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Fig. 1 A cloisonné
enamel panel, and a
detail of its inscription,
in the National Palace
Museum, Taipei,
illustrated in Enamel
Ware in the Ming and
Ch’ing Dynasties, Taipei,
1999, pl. 45.
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Κ例及た文，載錄於Ǘ明
清琺瑯器展覽圖錄ǘ
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年
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