A PAIR OF KINGFISHER FEATHER, CORAL, JADE AND HARDSTONE SCREENS

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A PAIR OF KINGFISHER FEATHER, CORAL, JADE AND HARDSTONE SCREENS
LATE QING DYNASTY

Each panel elaborately decorated with two peacocks and smaller song birds amid a flowering and fruiting tree above ornamental rockwork, executed in kingfisher feather of brilliant turquoise hue and other feathers of white, yellow and brown tones, coral, jade, enamelled glass and various hardstones, all reserved against a black ground, set in a hardwood frame carved with precious emblems and fitted into a stand carved with floral sprays and chilongs on the base, the feet carved as two recumbent Buddhistic lions
41 7/8 in. (106.5 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Compare a kingfisher feather and ivory-embellished table screen decorated with a figural landscape scene, mounted in a similar hardwood frame, included in the exhibition, Tributes from Guangdong to the Qing Court, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 28 February-12 April 1987, Catalogue, p. 104, no. 88.

(US$13,000-20,000)

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