清康熙癸酉（1693年） 彩漆百鳥朝鳳圖十二扇圍屏 《鄭重之印》、《山公》款

elaborately carved on both sides and painted in polychrome, the front depicting the 'one hundred birds courting the phoenix', with a central pair of phoenix perched on rockwork beside flowering peony and beneath a large flowering tree, with numerous other birds including egrets, crane, pheasants and mandarin ducks beside flowering lotus, magnolia and peony, all between a mountainous river landscape and mythical beast panels, the reverse with a long dedicatory inscription by the scholar Zheng Zhong to Liu Lang’s mother for her 70^th birthday, with other dedicatory inscriptions from regional officials and the cyclical guiyou date corresponding to 1693, all reserved on a brown lacquer ground

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This rare Coromandel lacquer screen is generally in good condition, however are some areas of old restoration and re-lacquering to the brown ground and particularly to the sides of most panels to both sides. There are some cracking and splits to the lacquer in some areas and a number of which are filled, particularly vertical ones running from the bottom of some panels and near the sides around the centre of the panels. There is some horizontal crackle to the surface of the lacquer consistent with age, and some minor chips in various areas. There are carved recesses on the sides of each panel relating to where old hinges would have joined the screens. New hinges have been inserted directly above these. Various areas of the flowers, birds, animals and rockwork have some losses of pigments to the front and back panels.
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本圍屏飾百鳥朝鳳圖，紋飾精巧，尺寸碩大，乃內銷彩漆器之珍品佳例，並證藏家身家顯貴。圍屏斷代清康熙癸酉（1693年），據圍屏背面刻文述，本屏乃為賀劉蘭谷母七十大壽特製，帶《鄭重之印》款。鄭重，原籍陜西，擅詩詞，刻文敘述劉母生平，贊頌其教導有方，培育劉蘭谷成謙謙君子。

圍屏之百鳥朝鳳、百鳥朝王紋飾，寓意吉祥，繪工精巧。圍屏並飾五倫圖，刻畫鳳凰、鶴、鴛鴦、鶺鴒、黃鶯。鳳，百鳥之王；鶴指父子、鴛鴦寓意夫婦、鶺鴒意指兄弟、而黃鶯則指朋輩。

比較一例，盧芹齋收藏，尺寸較小，圖載於Michel Beurdeley《Chinese Furniture》，東京，1979年，彩色圖版184；另一例售於紐約蘇富比1988年4月7/8日，編號445；再比一例，Bismarck 伯爵夫人收藏，售於摩納哥蘇富比1986年11月30日，編號739；美國匹茲堡亦收藏一例，售於紐約佳士得2008年3月19日，編號383。彩漆圍屏，多用於民間，或作外銷，但亦有少數獲納入御藏，比較一八屏例，一面飾花鳥，一面飾人物，載於胡德生，《明清宮廷家具珍品》，北京，2007年，圖版377。同書另載一十二屏例，飾人物圖，圖版378。

大型彩漆圍屏，始製於明末，康熙年間廣為流行。此類製作極耗工時，花費高昂，多由富商訂製，作為賀壽禮品，製於江蘇、福建、廣東、浙江及江西等地作坊。