AN IMPERIAL HARDSTONE EMBELLISHED LAPIS LAZULI SCREEN

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AN IMPERIAL HARDSTONE EMBELLISHED LAPIS LAZULI SCREEN
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

One side of the screen elaborately decorated with worked gilt-metal, intricately detailed with carved turquoise, tourmaline, amethyst, rose quartz, chalcedony and jasper jade to depict a flowering prunus tree and a fruiting peach tree on a rockwork ground, the reverse side carved with one hundred stylised shou characters, all within a gilt-metal filigree frame further embellished with finely carved hardstones to form floral scrolls; the carved hardwood stand intricately detailed with white jade carvings of the Eight Treasures, ba bao, and turquoise hardstone lotus scrolls, the lapis lazuli colour enhanced (minor losses to embellishments, several replaced)
22 5/8 in. (57.4 cm.) overall height

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Compagnie de la Chine & des Indes, Paris

Lot Essay

Compare with a hanging screen with gold, hardstone and stained bone appliqués within a carved zitan frame from the Palace Museum, Beijing, and published in the Chinese University of Hong Kong exhibition Catalogue, Tributes from Guangdong to the Qing Court, 1987, as fig. 3.

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