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AN EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL EMBELLISHED ZITAN OPENWORK DISPLAY CABINET
Estimate
(Set Currency)
    HK$1,000,000 - HK$2,000,000
  • ($129,423 - $258,847)

Sale Information

Sale 2811
The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
31 May 2010
Hong Kong Buy Catalog





Lot Description

AN EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL EMBELLISHED ZITAN OPENWORK DISPLAY CABINET
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The square and rectangular shelves set at varying levels and bordered with reticulated silver wire-inlaid scrollwork borders, the left side with a small drawer below a compartment enclosed by a pair of hinged doors inlaid with white jade carvings of immortals among clouds, a second small drawer on the right side, all above a longer drawer spanning the length of the base, the drawers detailed in low relief with further scrollwork, the reverse intricately carved and pierced in various levels of relief and embellished to depict figures travelling through a vertiginous mountainous landscape towards a retreat nestled within the rocky outcrops, the elaborate mountainous scene continuing on both sides as an extension of the separate trestle stand supporting the cabinet which is further carved with archaistic scrollwork, scattered throughout with additional later Japanese embellishments
29 1/8 x 25 3/8 x 12 1/2 in. (74 x 64.2 x 31.6 cm.)


清乾隆 紫檀雕攜琴訪友圖插屏式多寶格

多寶格紫檀質，插屏式。正面上下錯落設六格，每格環飾透雕錯銀龍拐子花牙；左、右邊及披水牙上部各設拉手抽屜一具；左側抽屜上設小櫃一格，對開兩扇門，門上各嵌玉人一個及牙雕祥雲，安銅合葉；屜面、披水牙板及座墩均雕拐子龍。背面插屏式，崇山峻嶺，松桐映掩，樹木青蔥，樓閣依山而建，小橋下鏤空，但抽屜背面原來雕清流激湍，使畫面充滿動感；屏面嵌玉人幾個。

兩面站牙雕山崖樹林，亭台樓閣，與屏上紋飾互相呼應。

「園無石不秀，室無格不雅」，製作精美的多寶格會帶來一室優雅。如此多寶格設計精巧，運用有限的空間，設計出即是多寶格，又是插屏的實用陳設品。此多寶格邊框和屏心的鑲嵌物，為後加。

此多寶格曾分別為日前田、尾崎及 Shimabayashi Genka 家族收藏。

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Provenance

The Maeda Family Collection
The Ozaki family
Shimabayashi Genka

Lot Notes

Compare with a zitan table screen in the Palace Collection, Beijing which is carved to one side, as the present cabinet with a landscape scene depicting the Lanting Pavilion illustrated in Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Carvings, The Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 99, no. 91. The reverse is made up of a set of eight stacked drawers and is an example of the way table screens occasionally doubled as display cabinets or storage.

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