GGM244 - NEW BOOK Gugong Palace Museum ed: YAN BI SHENG HUI: QING GONG JIUCANG GUIPING. Splendor on the Walls: Hanging Screens from the Qing Imperial Palace. 延碧生輝:清宮舊藏桂屏. Beijing, 2024. 271 pp. Colour plates throughout, many full page and double page. A number of foldouts 32x25 cm. Cloth. GBP 160.00 Catalogue of an exhibition at the Gugong in Beijing that is testament to the virtuosity and skill of the craftsmen who worked in the palace workshops and elsewhere producing art objects for the Qing imperial court. The focus is on hanging screens that would have adorned the walls of palaces and halls in the Forbidden City. The exhibition is in four sections by theme: Picturesque Landscapes; A Multitude of Lives; Delightful Elegance; The Elegance of Brush and Ink. A total of 51 outstanding exhibits (some comprising pairs and groups) are illustrated in colour, many in multiple views (some foldouts) and showing close-up exquisite detail. Introduction, list of plates, captions to plates and abstracts to accompanying essays in English. Main text in Chinese. Subjects: Carvings Art Item 6 in List 212. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?g/GGM244.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |