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Compare the three-color slate table screen of similar size from the Jenyns Collection, illustrated by Jenyns and Watson, Chinese Art III, Rizzoli, New York, 1981, no 176
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A THREE-COLOR SLATE RECTANGULAR TABLE SCREEN, 18TH/19TH CENTURY, carved in high relief through the ochre and pale olive layers to the chocolate-color ground with a realistic design of chrysanthemum, birds on bamboo and rockery, the reverse plain--15 1/8 in. high, wood frame and stand