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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 5, 2017 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Important Chinese Art | 3629 | $****** - ****** | A MAGNIFICENT IMPERIAL KESI COMMEMORATING THE QIANLONG EMPEROR'S EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY |
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312.5 x 145 cm (123.03 x 57.09 in)
Christie's Hong Kong, 27th April 1997, lot 81.
skilfully and meticulously woven with a powerful large shou character in black against a beige ground, below five seals, respectively reading Qianlong yulan zhibao ('Treasure appreciated by the Qianlong Emperor'), Bishu shanzhuang ('Mountain Estate for Escaping the Heat'), Bazheng maonian zhibao ('Seal of the Eighty-year-old Man Mindful of the Eight Requirements'), Xintian zhuren ('The Master of Faith in Heaven'), Wufu wudaitang guxi tianzi bao ('Treasure of the Son of Heaven at Seventy at the Hall of the Five Blessings in Five Generations'), framed by a yellow border well woven in multi-coloured threads depicting eleven dragons chasing 'flaming pearls', each of the mythical beasts exquisitely picked out in gold and rendered in different postures, one depicted coiling around a 'flaming pearl' at the centre of the upper border, flanked by two striding sinuously, some rendered soaring upwards with the neck outstretched, all admist red, green, blue, yellow and aubergine ruyi cloud scrolls, the mount vibrantly decorated with bats in flight amidst sprigs of peaches and various floral sprays, bearing peony, lingzhi and narcissus blooms, all against a rich ruby-red ground, each of the cloisonné enamel scroll ends decorated with four medallions respectively enclosing a character of the reign mark
