Lot Essay
Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 April 1991, lot 315.
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A RARE SMALL INSCRIBED WHITE JADE SCREEN AND GREEN JADE STAND
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The white jade screen of square form, finely carved on one side in high relief with a flowering prunus tree emerging from a rocky crevice, the gnarled branches laden with blossoms and buds beside a steep cliff-face grown with small tufts of grass, further detailed with rolling clouds in the distance, the reverse inscribed and gilt with an Imperial poem of seven-character stanza entitled Meihua, 'Prunus flowers', the semi-translucent stone with a slight celadon tone; inserted into a separately carved greyish-green jade stand with scroll legs
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) overall height, box
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The white jade screen of square form, finely carved on one side in high relief with a flowering prunus tree emerging from a rocky crevice, the gnarled branches laden with blossoms and buds beside a steep cliff-face grown with small tufts of grass, further detailed with rolling clouds in the distance, the reverse inscribed and gilt with an Imperial poem of seven-character stanza entitled Meihua, 'Prunus flowers', the semi-translucent stone with a slight celadon tone; inserted into a separately carved greyish-green jade stand with scroll legs
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) overall height, box