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Lot Essay
Compare a very similar coromandel screen decorated with birds and flowers formerly in the C.T. Loo Collection and illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Chinese Furniture, Japan, 1979, p. 136-7, no. 184, and another illustrated by R. D. Jacobsen and N. Grindley in Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Museum of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999, pp. 159-61.
Coromandel screens were traditionally given to officials as gifts, and often include long inscriptions commemorating the occasion of the presentation. 'Coromandel' is a term Europeans mistakenly gave to Chinese incised lacquer screens of this type, believing that they originated from the southeast coast of India known as the Coromandel coast. These screens were shipped from China to India and then onward to European ports bringing them to the western market.
Coromandel screens were traditionally given to officials as gifts, and often include long inscriptions commemorating the occasion of the presentation. 'Coromandel' is a term Europeans mistakenly gave to Chinese incised lacquer screens of this type, believing that they originated from the southeast coast of India known as the Coromandel coast. These screens were shipped from China to India and then onward to European ports bringing them to the western market.