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Lot 187Y

A rare zitan-framed ivory and kingfisher-feather-embellished wall panel
Qianlong/ Jiaqing

13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A rare zitan-framed ivory and kingfisher-feather-embellished wall panel

Qianlong/ Jiaqing
Beautifully decorated with a figural scene within a fenced garden set before a village in a mountainous river landscape, 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.
Framed, overall 83.8cm x 59cm (33in x 23¼in).

Footnotes

Provenance: the Honourable Mrs Basil Ionides, Buxted Park, Sussex

Illustrated: R.Soame Jenyns, Chinese Art: The Minor Arts II, London, 1963, p.229, where the provenance is noted.
B. Jackson, Kingfisher Blue: Treasures of an Ancient Chinese Art, Toronto, 2001, p.189.

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.

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