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A VERY RARE IMPERIAL HORN APPLIQUE PANEL
Estimate
(Set Currency)
    HK$800,000 - HK$1,200,000
  • ($103,539 - $155,308)

Sale Information

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





Lot Description

A VERY RARE IMPERIAL HORN APPLIQUE PANEL
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The lakeside landscape scene finely rendered using finely carved layers of buffalo horn of varying caramel tone against a blue-green lacquer ground fading to pale yellow in the mid-distance to depict fishermen in boats and figures among fenced dwellings and lakeside pavilions nestled among the rocky tree-strewn shores of the islands, all within a hardwood frame
39 x 29 1/4 in. (99 x 74 cm.)


清乾隆 御製牛角雕湖山水榭圖掛屏

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VARIOUS PROPERTIES

Provenance

Acquired from Spink & Son, London, 1950's
A European private collection

Literature

S. Jenyns, Chinese Art, vol. 3, no. 148
D. Lion-Goldschmidt, Les Arts de la Chine, Vol. 3, Office du Livre, 1960, p. 184, pl. 148

Lot Notes

Compare with a very similar horn-applique landscape panel illustrated by G. Hawthorn, Oriental Works of Art, London, 1998, p. 86 and later sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28-29 November 2005, lot 1600.

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