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skilfully and meticulously woven with a powerful large shou character in black against a beige ground, below ?ve 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
‘?aming pearls’, each of the mythical beasts exquisitely picked out in gold and rendered in di?erent postures, one depicted coiling around a
‘?aming pearl’ at the centre of the upper border, ?anked 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 ?ight amidst sprigs of peaches and various ?oral 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
312.5 by 145 cm, 123 by 57 in.
PROVENANCE
Christie’s Hong Kong, 27th April 1997, lot 81. 清乾隆 御製緙絲壽字掛軸
鈐印:
「乾隆御覽之寶」、 「避暑山莊」、
「八徵耄念之寶」、
「信天主人」、
「五福五代堂古稀天子寶」
來源:
香港佳士得1997年4月27日,編號81
此壽字掛軸配掐絲琺瑯軸頭,飾番蓮紋,銘「 乾隆年製」款。