A WHITE JADE CIRCULAR TABLE SCREEN

QIANLONG/19TH CENTURY

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A WHITE JADE CIRCULAR TABLE SCREEN
Qianlong/19th Century
Well carved on one side with an elephant standing in a landscape, a foreigner seated on its back holding an umbrella in his left hand while he blows on the conch shell held in his right, his body inclined backward as he looks down at the attendant holding a fish behind the elephant, the reverse carved with two deer standing on a mountain path and incised with an inscription and two seals, the stone well polished and of very pale greenish-white tone with some fine opaque white mottling
9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) diam., wood stand

拍品專文

The inscription is an imperially composed poem. The seal is that of Chen Ying (1771-1840), a bannerman in the "Upright White Banner", recorded as being a Jinshi official in the fifty-eighth year of Qianlong and later in charge of The Board of Revenue and Population