M462
Description
Chinese cloisonné rectangular panel, decorated in the centre with two scholars seated in a viewing pavilion while their attendant brings them a wrapped qin, all amongst palace rooftops in a mountainous landscape scene, with willow, wutong, pine and five other different trees, amongst ruyi clouds, rockwork and bamboo sprays, all in rich colours of lapis, green, white, yellow, brown, red and black on a turquoise ground, encircled by a lapis blue-ground border with continuous stylised branches.
Wanli, 1573-1619.
55cm long x 31.5cm high
Condition
Excellent condition; some small infill.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From an important private French collection.
- Included by Stuart Marchant in Marchant – One Hundred Years, Volume II: 2001-2005, no. 1953, p. 469.
- An almost identical panel and another, from the same set, of identical size with the same border, from the Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, is illustrated by Dr. Gunhild Avitabile in Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné and Champlevé from 1400-1900, Hanover, 1981, no. 33, pp. 80-82.
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