清乾隆 粉彩百鹿圖插屏

finely painted with a wondrous mountainous landscape dotted with deer painted brown, red and some with spotted fur, accompanied by cranes, all frolicking amidst pine trees and lingzhi, the panel inset in a wood frame, the reverse decorated in black and red lacquers with gilt highlights of a descending archaistic bat suspending a gourd-shaped pendant of confronted fish above clusters of peaches issuing from gnarled branches entwined with lotus flowers, surrounded by bats swooping among swirling clouds, all against the brown lacquer ground

The plaque is in overall good condition with just enamel flakes, especially to the powder blue decorations. There are also original kiln specks. The panel was inspected without being removed from its frame.
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百鹿圖飾，寓意吉祥。鹿，音同「祿」，與所繪松鶴，均寓長壽。百鹿圖且涵乾隆帝治國之道。行獵之事，始於康熙，乾隆早期，或為恢復祖父所立慣例，舉行皇家狩獵。自乾隆三年起，高宗即於京城東北，近承德熱河處設御用狩獵圍場，場中林木蔥鬱，野鹿成群。宮廷畫師常受命前往圍場，以繪畫記錄宮廷狩獵之景，此類畫作，亦繪於器，作以裝飾，本品恰屬此類。

百鹿圖多見飾於壺形尊。仍見一掛屏例，曾售於香港蘇富比1977年11月29日，編號174。另有一例，可資比較，售於倫敦蘇富比1973年10月19日，編號419。