Prince Yong’s Book Inscription Hall lives deep in Tuping Bogu

[Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall Dwelling in Tuping · Bogu Meditation Axis]

The axis of Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall Dwelling in Tuping · Bogu Meditation Axis, Qing Dynasty, painted by court painters, silk, color setting, 184 cm vertically and 98 cm horizontally
This is one of the 12 pictures of Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall, formerly known as “The Painting of Princess Yinzhen’s Music”. This set of picture screens was customized by Yin Zhen for his imperial garden Yuanmingyuan. It was originally pasted on the screen in the “Deep Willow Reading Hall” of Yuanmingyuan. It was only in August of the tenth year of Yongzheng’s reign (1732) that an order was issued to remove them from the screen and hide them in the Forbidden City
This set of pictures, using the meticulous and heavy color method, not only shows the elegant aesthetic taste of palace painting and the artistic characteristics of the beauty of the ladies’ painters, but also vividly depicts the crown clothes, hairstyles, jewelry and furniture and porcelain of the palace women’s interior decoration in a realistic way. In this picture, the “imitation Song official kiln”, “imitation Ru kiln”, “Lang kiln red glaze” porcelain, as well as the furniture “Huanghuali Duobao grid” The “mottled bamboo tables and chairs” and so on are the most popular varieties of furniture and furnishings from Kangxi to Yongzheng. The headwear and bracelets worn by women also reflect the distinctive characteristics of the times. They were the most popular styles in the palace at that time, and had the characteristics of exquisite craftsmanship and exquisite materials.