Lot Essay
The figures on this table screen, scholar, farmer, woodcutter and fishermen, represent the Four Noble Professions.
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18TH-19TH CENTURY
Details
A PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE RECTANGULAR TABLE SCREEN
18TH-19TH CENTURY
One side is carved in high relief with a scholar seated in a riverside pavilion watching a farmer and a water buffalo in a rice paddy, and on the reverse with a woodcutter, and two fisherman on a dock beside the river, one fishing, the other putting fish in baskets. The stone is semi-translucent and of pale greenish-white color with some areas of pale russet color.
7 1/8 in. (17.1 cm.) high
18TH-19TH CENTURY
One side is carved in high relief with a scholar seated in a riverside pavilion watching a farmer and a water buffalo in a rice paddy, and on the reverse with a woodcutter, and two fisherman on a dock beside the river, one fishing, the other putting fish in baskets. The stone is semi-translucent and of pale greenish-white color with some areas of pale russet color.
7 1/8 in. (17.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Ashkenazie & Co., San Francisco, 1980s.
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