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EXCEPTIONNEL PARAVENT A DOUZE FEUILLES EN LAQUE DE COROMANDEL REPRESENTANT LE PARADIS TAOISTE

Lot 18
22.11.2022 16:00UTC +01:00
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ID 859304
Lot 18 | EXCEPTIONNEL PARAVENT A DOUZE FEUILLES EN LAQUE DE COROMANDEL REPRESENTANT LE PARADIS TAOISTE
Estimate value
€ 150 000 – 250 000
EXCEPTIONNEL PARAVENT A DOUZE FEUILLES EN LAQUE DE COROMANDEL REPRESENTANT LE PARADIS TAOISTE

CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE KANGXI (1662-1722)

L'une des faces représente le Paradis des Immortels taoistes dont Xiwangmu (Reine mère de l'Ouest) en haut à gauche avec ses suivantes et sa biche. Est également représenté Laozi chevauchant son buffle, Han Xiangzi sur son éléphant, Shoulao dans sa grotte et d'autres immortels et leur suite. Certains sont représentés dans des nuages vaporeux évoquant les têtes de ruyi, survolant un paysage rocailleux planté de différents arbres aux feuillages parcourus d'une légère brise au-dessus des vagues. Deux embarcations légères en corail sculpté voguent doucement. La bordure supérieure est décorée d'objets précieux, coupes libatoires et bronzes archaïques se répétant sur les côtés autour de deux grands bouquets fleuris. La bordure inférieure est ornée de douze types de fleurs différents.

L'autre face est très délicatement sculptée de cartouches alternant des poèmes, tous transcrits dans différentes calligraphis, des scènes animées, paysages, fleurs et fruits. Toutes les bordures du revers sont décorées de fleurs et fruits.





One side of the screen is elaborately decorated with a continuous scene of the Daoist immortals, including Xiwangmu (Queen Mother of the West) and her attendants, Laozi riding on a buffalo, Han Xiangzi standing on an elephant, Zhang Guolao riding a donkey and other immortals and their attendants, all within a mountainous and cloudy landscape, below a border of precious objects at the top edge and framed by the side borders with four-clawed dragons. The reverse is carved with a lengthy dedicatory inscription celebrating the seventieth birthday of Mrs. Liu Lin, followed by a date, the fifty-first year of Kangxi period, and the author’s seal, Fan Guangzhong. The reverse is decorated with alternating square panels enclosing poems, animated scenes, landscapes, fruits and flowers. The poems are depicted in various calligraphic scripts in the manner of famous Ming-dynasty scholars and artists, all framed by further 'precious objects'.

Hauteur : 243 cm. (95 5/8 in.)

Largeur complète : 528 cm. (207 7/8 in.)

Largeur d'une feuille : 45 cm. (17 3/4 in.)





Provenance

Collection Brugier, Paris.

Vente Lempertz, Cologne, 5-6 décembre 2014, lot 517.

Collection Didier Aaron (1923-2009), Paris.



Literature

Nicole Brugier, Les laques de Coromandel, La Bibilothèque des Arts, Paris, 2015, pp. 82-83 et 152.

Thibaut Wolverperges, Le meuble français en laque au XVIIIe siècle, Racine, Bruxelles, 2000, p. 53.



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A MAGNIFICENT TWELVE-PANEL COROMANDEL LACQUER SCREEN,
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
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