RECTANGULAR BRONZE GRID China, Qing dynasty,... - Lot 178 - Aponem

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RECTANGULAR BRONZE GRID China, Qing dynasty,... - Lot 178 - Aponem
RECTANGULAR BRONZE GRID China, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, 20th year of the Emperor's reign finely chiseled and openworked with thirty-four circles interspersed with small stylized plum blossoms between each one. D. 105,5 x 20 cm PROVENANCE: -Reportedly from the Baoyun bronze pavilion. -Sold at auction in Shang'Hat in 1910, in a lot including 10 doors and windows, according to a mention in the Illustration of February 15, 1913. -Acquired in 1910 by M H. (bank manager in Shanghai) in Shanghai), according to a mention in the Illustration of February 15, 1913. -By descent, in the same family (The great-granddaughter of M.H. received as an inheritance the 10 doors and windows that she sells to an antique dealer antique dealer who himself sold them to Mr. Maurice Greenberg, CEO of the American International Group). She keeps this grid as a souvenir. -Sold in 2007 to a French collector. The bronze window grille of this sale comes from the "Bao Yun Ge" pavilion in Beijing. Located west of the Fo Xiang Ge pavilion on the Wanshou Mountain of the Summer Palace in Beijing, the Bao Yun Ge Pavilion was built in the 20th year of Qianlong's reign of the Qing Dynasty Qing Dynasty (1755). It is 7.55 meters high and weighs 207 tons. The pillars, beams, rafters rafters, tiles and the roof of the entire building are building are all made of bronze and imitate the wooden structures. The pavilion has survived several calamities, the the first time was in 1860, when the Qingyi Palace of the Qingyi Palace (formerly Summer Palace), but the building was spared because it was entirely made of bronze. The second time was in 1900, when the Allied forces of the eight nations sacked sacked the Summer Palace. The third time, in August 1945, the Japanese army took the the two-ton bronze table in the pavilion and was pavilion and was about to melt it down to make ammunition, but the munitions, but the table was saved when Japan surrendered Japan surrendered a few days later. This pavilion would have been stripped of its windows and elements around the year of the abdication of the last last Chinese Emperor. In 1993, an American dealer bought ten ten of these windows from an antique dealer and returned them to the Summer Palace. This bronze window grille bronze window grille would be one of those lost more than more than a hundred years ago.
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