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Lot Essay
Compare with other rectangular table screens carved with cinnabar lacquer on one side and inlaid with hardstones on the other: one included in the exhibition The Minor Arts of China, Spink & Son Ltd., London, March 1983, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 7; and another with an arched top, sold in our New York Rooms, 2 December 1993, lot 31.
There are also other examples of table screens carved entirely in cinnabar lacquer which are very similar in style, shape and size to those on the present lot. Cf. a screen decorated with a scene from the 'Red Cliff' illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Carved Lacquer Ware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1971, pl. 33; two examples with the striated black-ground, like in the present lot, illustrated in Carved Lacquer in the Collection of the Palace Museum, 1985, pls. 373 and 374; one from the Fuller Collection, sold in our London Rooms, 28 June 1965, lot 224; and another with a closely related landscape scene, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 April 2004, lot 21.
There are also other examples of table screens carved entirely in cinnabar lacquer which are very similar in style, shape and size to those on the present lot. Cf. a screen decorated with a scene from the 'Red Cliff' illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Carved Lacquer Ware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1971, pl. 33; two examples with the striated black-ground, like in the present lot, illustrated in Carved Lacquer in the Collection of the Palace Museum, 1985, pls. 373 and 374; one from the Fuller Collection, sold in our London Rooms, 28 June 1965, lot 224; and another with a closely related landscape scene, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 April 2004, lot 21.