A MAGNIFICENT TWELVE-PANEL INLAID LACQUER 'IMPERIAL HUNTING' SCREEN QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD comprising twelve wooden panels, each covered with layers of black lacquer and exceptionally inlaid with mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell with painted details and applied with gold and silver leaf and dust, the panels uniting to comprise an imperial hunting scene depicting a procession, a party of mounted huntsmen and women, attendants and soldiers, entering a walled hunting park through a gate while engaged in a pursuit of game and birds, the fifth panel rendered with a central figure, possibly the Kangxi Emperor himself, seated astride a white stallion, dressed in the Manchu short black winter coat over an elaborately embroidered long robe, the coat decorated with a square insignia of rank at the front, adorned with a headdress embellished with two long pheasant feathers, the central figure accompanied by various riders, including two court ladies, one holding a musical instrument and the other rendered holding a pipe in a gesture of offering to the central figure, the huntsmen depicted holding weapons including bows and arrows, slings, spears and a gun, the animated scene highlighted with a solder holding a billowing Bordered Yellow Banner, two further horsemen behind him blowing hunting horns and another one carrying gold incense burners, the rural setting decorated with hounds playfully wresting with their prey, one with a monkey and another with a leopard, the imperial hunting scene executed in the centre of the panels and framed within a rectangular border, the top and bottom of each panel save for the first and last finely decorated with a magpie perched on rocks with gnarled branches issuing clusters of leaves, the first and last panels delicately picked out with auspicious emblems including fruiting and flowering branches issuing from gu vessels, beribbonned leaves and bells, all within a border enclosing detached stylised lotus scrolls, the reverse of each panel vibrantly painted in vivid tones of yellow and orange with various flowering and fruiting sprays including peony, lotus, lingzhi and pomegranate accentuated with small green leaves each panel 198.5 by 37 by 2 cm, 78 1/2 by 14 5/8 by 3/4 in.
A MAGNIFICENT TWELVE-PANEL INLAID LACQUER 'IMPERIAL HUNTING' SCREEN QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD comprising twelve wooden panels, each covered with layers of black lacquer and exceptionally inlaid with mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell with painted details and applied with gold and silver leaf and dust, the panels uniting to comprise an imperial hunting scene depicting a procession, a party of mounted huntsmen and women, attendants and soldiers, entering a walled hunting park through a gate while engaged in a pursuit of game and birds, the fifth panel rendered with a central figure, possibly the Kangxi Emperor himself, seated astride a white stallion, dressed in the Manchu short black winter coat over an elaborately embroidered long robe, the coat decorated with a square insignia of rank at the front, adorned with a headdress embellished with two long pheasant feathers, the central figure accompanied by various riders, including two court ladies, one holding a musical instrument and the other rendered holding a pipe in a gesture of offering to the central figure, the huntsmen depicted holding weapons including bows and arrows, slings, spears and a gun, the animated scene highlighted with a solder holding a billowing Bordered Yellow Banner, two further horsemen behind him blowing hunting horns and another one carrying gold incense burners, the rural setting decorated with hounds playfully wresting with their prey, one with a monkey and another with a leopard, the imperial hunting scene executed in the centre of the panels and framed within a rectangular border, the top and bottom of each panel save for the first and last finely decorated with a magpie perched on rocks with gnarled branches issuing clusters of leaves, the first and last panels delicately picked out with auspicious emblems including fruiting and flowering branches issuing from gu vessels, beribbonned leaves and bells, all within a border enclosing detached stylised lotus scrolls, the reverse of each panel vibrantly painted in vivid tones of yellow and orange with various flowering and fruiting sprays including peony, lotus, lingzhi and pomegranate accentuated with small green leaves each panel 198.5 by 37 by 2 cm, 78 1/2 by 14 5/8 by 3/4 in.
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