A RARE PAIR OF QIANGJIN AND TIANQI LACQUER QUATRELOBED TRAYS

Qianlong

Qianlong
Each tray finely incised and painted in the qiangjin and tianqi technique reserved on a rich red ground, elegantly-decorated in the well with a gilt raised quatrelobed cartouche framed by a key-fret border enclosing geometric-patterns in orange and silver containing auspicious wan and floral patterns, the elegantly shaped cavetto with a cartouche on each side decorated with floral honeycomb diaper-ground reserved against a geometric pattern, the exterior walls with wan diaper-ground, the underside black lacquered, all raised on four short feet. 17.7cm (7in) wide. (2).

清乾隆 填漆戧金海棠式盤一對

Provenance:
Parry Collection, London, and thence by descent

來源：
倫敦Parry家族收藏，並由後人保存迄今

The present pair of trays was made for the Imperial Court and follows the Qianlong-period revival of forms and design made during the Ming dynasty's Jiajing period. See a carved cinnabar and qiangjin lacquer quatrelobed tray, Jiajing, illustrated in The Creation of Natural Immensity and Grandeur: the Yang Ming Shan Fang Collection of Lacquer from Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Beijing, 2020, pp.92-93, no.24. Compare also a qiangjin and tianqi lacquer box and cover of quatrelobed form, mid Qing dynasty, with a very similar design to the present pair of trays, illustrated by S.Kwan, Chinese Lacquer: The Muwen Tang Collection series, Hong Kong, 2010, p.336, no.126.

海棠式，通體髹赭漆，以彩漆並戧金花紋為飾，盤底髹黑漆。盤心隨形開光以一道鎏金突稜為界。開光外環繞以回紋，內填錦地萬字及花卉紋。內壁造型優雅，四壁均各有一開光，內填六方錦地花卉紋。

本品應為清宮內廷之作，因乾隆一朝大興復古，此二盤從造型至紋樣上也頗具明風，如陽明山房所藏一件明嘉靖剔紅戧金海棠式盤，收錄於《巧法造化：陽明山房藏宋元明清漆器》，北京，2020年，頁92-93，編號24。其裝飾亦可與一件清中期填漆錦紋海棠形盒比對，圖見關善明著，《中國漆藝》，香港，2010年，頁336，編號126。