清康熙二十二年癸亥 （1683年） 髹漆加彩刻郭子儀祝壽圖十二扇屏風

the front elaborately carved with the festive birthday celebration of the famous Tang dynasty general Guo Ziyi, seated in the central hall, the focus of attention as guests and attendants converge bearing gifts, in a lavish garden setting of ponds and pavilions, enclosed within a border carved with 'Hundred Antiques' and poetic inscriptions, the reverse with a lengthy dedicatory inscription, names of the gifters and the date

Stair and Co.，紐約，1991年

As is expected with lacquer of this age and type, there has been overall restoration to vertical splitting of the softwood panels, to lifting lacquer which in this screen is visible in the uneven surface with primarily horizontally oriented crackling, there is overpaint to areas of lost lacquer and pigment and the gilt has been retouched. A clear layer of shellac has been applied to the panels to help stabilize the lifting lacquer and flaking pigments.
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A similar screen in the Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Koln, Germany is illustrated in Hai-Wai-Yi-Chen: Chinese Art in Overseas Collections, Lacquerware, Taipei, 1987, pl. 176, and another similar example was sold in these rooms 18th-19th March 2014, lot 410.