A PAIR OF CHINESE JADE AND HARDSTONE INSET FOUR-LEAF SCREENS**, THE INSETS 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY, THE LEAVES LATER, cleverly inset using earlier stones including lapis lazuli, jade, malachite, ivory, amber, coral, soapstone and quartz with various landscape scenes with poetic inscriptions above bird or vase groups, all banded with mother-of-pearl inlaid borders, the reverse with large gilt inscription including the name of the city of Yangzhou--74½ x 15½ in. each leaf (2) | Christie's

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A PAIR OF CHINESE JADE AND HARDSTONE INSET FOUR-LEAF SCREENS**, THE INSETS 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY, THE LEAVES LATER, cleverly inset using earlier stones including lapis lazuli, jade, malachite, ivory, amber, coral, soapstone and quartz with various landscape scenes with poetic inscriptions above bird or vase groups, all banded with mother-of-pearl inlaid borders, the reverse with large gilt inscription including the name of the city of Yangzhou--74½ x 15½ in. each leaf (2)

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A PAIR OF CHINESE JADE AND HARDSTONE INSET FOUR-LEAF SCREENS**, THE INSETS 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY, THE LEAVES LATER, cleverly inset using earlier stones including lapis lazuli, jade, malachite, ivory, amber, coral, soapstone and quartz with various landscape scenes with poetic inscriptions above bird or vase groups, all banded with mother-of-pearl inlaid borders, the reverse with large gilt inscription including the name of the city of Yangzhou--74½ x 15½ in. each leaf (2)

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