Bonhams 1793 : An Yixing plaque framed within wood and mother-of-pearl inlaid stand Late Qing dynasty / early Republican period

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24 Nov 2012 16:00 CST Hong Kong
Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
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An Yixing plaque framed within wood and mother-of-pearl inlaid stand

Late Qing dynasty / early Republican period
The stoneware panel finely carved on both sides: one side depicting the meeting between a traveller and a merchant with his horse pulling a cart, with a kaishu inscription and a zhuanshu circular seal mark on the top left corner, the other side with a multiple kaishu inscriptions worked in relief, all framed within a rectangular wooden panel with finely inlaid mother-of-pearl floral sprays issuing from rockworks and surrounded by birds and butterflies, the stand also inlaid with mother-of-pearl on one side featuring a scene of the Eight Immortals crossing a river.
79.4cm high. (2).

Sold for HK$ 524,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

The screen bears a signature of Bo Shou, who was an Yixing artist and became active during the late Qing dynasty and early Republican period. The carved inscription on the reverse of the screen is an imitation of the cliff carvings in Liangcheng Mountain, the three-character carving of zhu jun chang is attributed to the West Han dynasty. The stele which is now residing in the Jining Municipal Museum was moved to the Confucian Temple in 1792, together with postscripts carved by scholars such as Weng Fanggang, Qian Meixi, Huang Yi and Li Kezheng.

清末民初紅木嵌螺鈿段泥刻伯樂相馬圖大插屏

「伯樂相馬，筠如□人畫，陳鴻圖刻」
「咽三」
「栢壽」

插屏四邊攢紅木框及木座，上以螺鈿嵌飾竹石花蝶，底座一面嵌八仙過海圖，插屏中間嵌紫砂屏板，段泥泥質，其中一面刻伯樂相馬圖並以彩飾，屏左下角鈐一「栢壽」篆文印，另一面仿石刻刻詩文題字。

屏背面所刻系仿「朱君長殘碑」所作，亦稱「朱君長題字」。西漢刻石。寬82釐米，高77釐米。早年殘損，僅存「朱君長」三字。清乾隆五十七年(1792年)四月，錢塘黃易得于濟寧兩城山(現屬微山縣)下，審為漢刻，移置州學明倫堂。移置時，旁刻翁方綱、錢梅溪、黃易、李克正等題記。乾隆六十年(1795年)阮元按試過此，細審後雲:"石面多樵斧痕，其制頗類曲阜墳壇二刻"。該石碑目前藏濟寧市博物館漢碑室。另一部分系雲峰山摩崖石刻中之「右闕題字」，傳為北魏鄭道昭所書，字勢跌宕，氣勢開張。

柏壽，民國時期紫砂藝人，全名潘柏壽，善制紫砂花盆，據傳為紫砂名家范正根之師。