17th Century Chinese Coromandel Panels

A pair of framed Kangxi period coromandel laquer doors.

China, circa 1689-90.

Height 3ft 2in (96.5cm).

Width 3ft (91.5cm).

Depth: 2cm

The final three image show the reverse side of the panels.

These panels were part of a folding room screen depicting "A Bed-full of Tablets" a Kangxi period dramatization of the Guo Ziyi legend. 

General Guo served four emperors during the Tang dynasty and was instrumental in quelling the An Shi rebellion. On his 60^th birthday so many family members and officials came to offer their congratulations that his bed was literally covered with gifts of memorial tablets, this scene is part of that depiction.

For a virtually identical pair of panels on a 12 fold screen, inscribed 20^th year of the Kangxi reign (1681) see Christies New York sale 2775, 22^nd October 2013, lot 77.

Comparable Coromandel panels also  appear on a medal cabinet from the collection of Joseph Pellerin (1684-1782) Style Regence 1730 and acquired for the Royal collection in 1784 inv. No. 55.701