A framed ivory and kingfisher-feather-embellished wall panel, Qing dynasty, Qianlong/Jiaqing.
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Decorated with a figural scene within a fenced garden set before a village in a mountainous riverscape, well detailed with a scholar seated on a chair holding a cup, below a parrot stand, with lady attendants by his side holding a wine ewer and other objects, looking at a lady dancing with a sword raised over her head and an attendant boy, standing under the shade of a tree, all set within a superbly carved zitan frame with four bats tied with interlocked bands and floral cartouches, glazed. Measure with frame 86x63 cm.
CITES certificate 4.10.18-07383/2025 accompanies the lot.
Provenance
Property of a lady, purchased in Sweden at auction in the 1980's.
Exhibitions
Compare: Bonhams, Fine Chinese Art
13 May 2010. Live Auction. London, New Bond Street. Lot no 187.
Compare also, Christies, lot 275. 15 September 2009 Live auction 2196. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
Literature
Compare related kingfisher feather and bone or ivory embellished panels attributed to the Qianlong period, illustrated in A. Setterwall, S. Fogelmarck and B. Gyllensvard, The Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm, Malmo, 1972, pp.200-202.
Compare also, R. Soame Jenyns, Chinese Art: The Minor Arts II, London, 1963, p.229 and in B. Jackson, Kingfisher Blue: Treasures of an Ancient Chinese Art, Toronto, 2001, p.189.
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