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An eight-panel Coromandel screen. 18th/19th century

Auction 1101 - overview Cologne
09.12.2017, 11:00 - Art from China, Tibet, and Nepal I: Highlights
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
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An eight-panel Coromandel screen. 18th/19th century

An eight-panel Coromandel screen, depicting a continuous landscape with the Eighteen Luohans, at the centre a large stone table with various Buddhist accoutrements, surrounded by six luohans, the other figures are interspersed throughout, some in typical poises and with attributes. The scene is surrounded by a thin border of archaistic dragons. At the bottom of each panel three of the Hundred Antiquities. The inscription in the upper left reads Shiba luohan tu, sealed Xiuguan. The reverse displays a pair of deer beneath a pine and plum blossom branches, and rocks rendered in the blue-green manner with a border of pine needles on cracked ice. Traces of age and usage. 18th/19th century.
Height 214 cm; total width 332 cm (each panel 40.5 cm)

The Buddhist theme of the Eighteen Luohan on a kuancai-screen is highly unusual. On the other hand the composition with various figures facing the central figure group is in keeping with most Kangxi period Coromandel screens as well as the two deer embedded into a rocky landscape on the reverse. Compare: W. de Kesel and G. Dhont, Coromandel Lacquer Screens, Ghent 2002, p. 62, ill. 41 and 42.

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