A GILT DECORATED SPINACH-GREEN JADE AND IRON-RED LACQUER FOUR-LEAF SCREEN

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A GILT DECORATED SPINACH-GREEN JADE AND IRON-RED LACQUER FOUR-LEAF SCREEN
19TH CENTURY

Each leaf comprising of two main rectangular spinach-green jade plaques inter-spaced with three smaller panels above a bracket-shaped apron, each plaque decorated in gilt with varying pavilion landscape scenes, the reverse with exotic birds and flowers, the plaques held within lacquer frames embellished with gilt floral-scrolls, the overall screen further decorated in gilt with floral-scrolls and confronted archaistic-dragons (minor losses to lacquer)
Each panel 13 3/8 x 70 7/8 in. (34 cm. x 180 cm.)

Lot Essay

Cf. a spinach-green jade table screen with landscape scenes painted in gold included in the National History Museum exhibition, The Jade Carving Art in the Ch'ing Dynasty, Taibei, 1990, Catalogue, p. 50.

(US$40,000-45,000)

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