A SUPERBLY CARVED AND RARE EMBELLISHED LACQUER PANEL INSCRIBED WITH AN IMPERIAL POEM SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG, DATED GUIYOU YEAR (IN ACCORDANCE WITH 1753) of rectangular form, exquisitely depicting a tasteful assemblage of scholarly and auspicious objects to welcome the New Year, with a profusion of different materials including jade, polychrome on and stained ivory, porcelain, gilt-bronze, carnelian, agate, and hardwood, all against an ochre lacquer ground and within a cinnabar lacquer frame intricately carved with lotus scrolls, the array of objects centred with a gilt-bronze incense burner and wood cover surmounted with a carnelian and agate finial, partially concealing a celadon jade ruyi sceptre with undulating tassels, in front of a small cloisonné enamel circular box and cover and a small slender cloisonné enamel ovoid vase issuing forth gilt-bronze incense tools, next to a large hardwood stand decorated with an angular scrolled apron supporting a jade vessel issuing forth a lacquered wood incense utensil, next to a large blue-glazed porcelain dish, the dish with three finger-citrons, a lychee and a chestnut represented with painted ivory, the assemblage further decorated with a bronze archaistic fangding with jade offerings next to a flambé -glazed vase with gnarled branches bearing clusters of leaves and peony buds, the ochre ground evenly punctuated with other decorations and auspicious items, including handfuls of fruits and nuts made of hardstone and painted ivory as well as a porcelain narcissus bowl with thin stained ivory leaves, along with handscrolls, arrows and firecrackers meticulously rendered with polychrome on and stained ivory, the lower foreground with a set of stained ivory figures of boys playing musical instruments on a wood stand, the upper right corner incised with an imperial poem, dated to the first day of the guiyou year (1753) and followed by two seal marks reading Qian and Long respectively, all below nine polychrome lacquer panels, each divided into three main registers, the first of three rectangular cartouches, each enclosing a pair of mythical beasts, the second register of two stylised narrow bands of scrolls and florets flanking a rectangular panel centred with a medallion enclosing the wan symbol surrounded by a trefoil lappet border, all within floral scrolls, the third with stylised leafy floral scrolls 132 by 105 cm, 52 by 41 3/8 in.
A SUPERBLY CARVED AND RARE EMBELLISHED LACQUER PANEL INSCRIBED WITH AN IMPERIAL POEM SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG, DATED GUIYOU YEAR (IN ACCORDANCE WITH 1753) of rectangular form, exquisitely depicting a tasteful assemblage of scholarly and auspicious objects to welcome the New Year, with a profusion of different materials including jade, polychrome on and stained ivory, porcelain, gilt-bronze, carnelian, agate, and hardwood, all against an ochre lacquer ground and within a cinnabar lacquer frame intricately carved with lotus scrolls, the array of objects centred with a gilt-bronze incense burner and wood cover surmounted with a carnelian and agate finial, partially concealing a celadon jade ruyi sceptre with undulating tassels, in front of a small cloisonné enamel circular box and cover and a small slender cloisonné enamel ovoid vase issuing forth gilt-bronze incense tools, next to a large hardwood stand decorated with an angular scrolled apron supporting a jade vessel issuing forth a lacquered wood incense utensil, next to a large blue-glazed porcelain dish, the dish with three finger-citrons, a lychee and a chestnut represented with painted ivory, the assemblage further decorated with a bronze archaistic fangding with jade offerings next to a flambé -glazed vase with gnarled branches bearing clusters of leaves and peony buds, the ochre ground evenly punctuated with other decorations and auspicious items, including handfuls of fruits and nuts made of hardstone and painted ivory as well as a porcelain narcissus bowl with thin stained ivory leaves, along with handscrolls, arrows and firecrackers meticulously rendered with polychrome on and stained ivory, the lower foreground with a set of stained ivory figures of boys playing musical instruments on a wood stand, the upper right corner incised with an imperial poem, dated to the first day of the guiyou year (1753) and followed by two seal marks reading Qian and Long respectively, all below nine polychrome lacquer panels, each divided into three main registers, the first of three rectangular cartouches, each enclosing a pair of mythical beasts, the second register of two stylised narrow bands of scrolls and florets flanking a rectangular panel centred with a medallion enclosing the wan symbol surrounded by a trefoil lappet border, all within floral scrolls, the third with stylised leafy floral scrolls 132 by 105 cm, 52 by 41 3/8 in.
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