PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EARL AND IRENE MORSE
A PAIR OF WHITE JADE RECTANGULAR TABLE SCREENS
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A PAIR OF WHITE JADE RECTANGULAR TABLE SCREENS
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Each carved with an immortal and attendant in a mountainous retreat, one immortal representing Shoulao holding a staff and his attendant a peach branch, the other immortal holding a ruyi sceptre and a flower, each screen with a landscape on the reverse, one incorporating a pair of deer, the other a pair of cranes, the well-polished stone with fine opaque white mottling throughout--9 1/8 x 7 1/8in. (23.1 x 18cm.) wood stands (2)
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Each carved with an immortal and attendant in a mountainous retreat, one immortal representing Shoulao holding a staff and his attendant a peach branch, the other immortal holding a ruyi sceptre and a flower, each screen with a landscape on the reverse, one incorporating a pair of deer, the other a pair of cranes, the well-polished stone with fine opaque white mottling throughout--9 1/8 x 7 1/8in. (23.1 x 18cm.) wood stands (2)