A JADE AND HARDSTONE INSET CINNABAR LACQUER TABLE SCREEN

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A JADE AND HARDSTONE INSET CINNABAR LACQUER TABLE SCREEN
18TH CENTURY

The square screen inlaid on one side with a scene of a scholar painting at a table, a young boy serving him tea, within a garden complex beneath a spreading pine tree, the reverse inlaid with flowering iris growing from layered rockwork, both scenes reserved on a pale-brown lacquer ground, the lower rectangular panel inset with bats and shou characters reserved on a trellis-pattern ground, all raised on a cinnabar lacquer stand elaborately carved allover with lotus scroll and Buddhist emblems incorporating dragon and wave brackets at the base resting on scroll-form supports, some losses and restoration--25in. (63.6cm.) high
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Compare the cinnabar lacquer table screen included in the exhibition, The Minor Arts of China, Spink & Son Ltd, 1983, London, Catalogue no. 8, where the back of the screen shows a design of rocks and peonies inlaid in various hardstones on a plain lacquer ground