Lot Essay
Compare the three-color slate table screen of similar size from the Jenyns Collection illustrated by Jenyns and Watson, Chinese Art III, Rizzoli, New York, 1981, no. 176
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A THREE-COLOR SLATE TABLE SCREEN
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Well carved through the mottled dark buff-colored skin and the soft olive-green layer of the stone to the purplish-brown ground with a design of four crabs clustered around the graceful, flowering grasses, some chips, small restoration--14 3/4 x 12 3/8in. (37.5 x 31.4cm.)
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Well carved through the mottled dark buff-colored skin and the soft olive-green layer of the stone to the purplish-brown ground with a design of four crabs clustered around the graceful, flowering grasses, some chips, small restoration--14 3/4 x 12 3/8in. (37.5 x 31.4cm.)