A pair of gilt-decorated wood and glass-inset palace lanterns, Qing dynasty | 清 宮燈一對

Collection of Dr Wou Kiuan (1910-1997).

Wou Lien-Pai Museum, coll. no. N.5.12.

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吳蓮伯博物院，編號N.5.12

A number of similar hanging lanterns can be found in situ across the Forbidden City and in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing. Compare, for example, a gilt-lacquer lantern with etched glass panels and floral openwork, illustrated in Zhao Yingying, ‘Deng yao zhu ying man jincheng / The Palace Lamps and Their Origin in the Qing Dynasty’, Forbidden City, 2022 (8), p. 35; A related pair of smaller gilded lanterns of bulbous form can be found in the bed chamber behind the ‘Hall of Mental Cultivation’ (Yangxindian) in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (II), Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 249.

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