THE BI MING DYNASTY (1368-1644), THE SCREEN 18TH-19TH CENTURY

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A SMALL JADE BI-INSET ZITAN TABLE SCREEN
THE BI MING DYNASTY (1368-1644), THE SCREEN 18TH-19TH CENTURY
The mottled yellowish-green and russet jade bi, carved with comma spirals between plain borders, is set within the zitan panel and secured by a central plug, which is carved with a shou character. The panel is carved on one side with a pair of confronted chilong and the reverse is inlaid with a boxwood plaque of double-gourd-form carved with the characters daji ('great auspiciousness'), above a panel carved with ruyi heads. The whole is fitted into the shoe feet joined by shaped aprons and flanked above by standing spandrels.
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high

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A similarly carved zitan table screen of larger size (22.8 cm high), but inset with a jade bi dated to the Han dynasty, is illustrated in Ching Wan Society Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: objects of vertu, Taipei, 2012, pp. 64-65. See, also, another zitan table screen, inset with a mottled green jade bi of Han dynasty date, sold at Christie's New York, 19 March 2009, lot 632.

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