A RARE LARGE CARVED THREE-COLOR LACQUER TABLE SCREEN

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE LARGE CARVED THREE-COLOR LACQUER TABLE SCREEN
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each side well carved through the red lacquer with a different figural scene, in one, scholars and boys are seen practicing calligraphy or painting in a lakeside setting, a scholar sits at a table in a pavilion raised on pilings as a boy carries a duck down some stairs to the water and groups of boys are shown seated on the ground, the reverse with a scene of a scholar standing outside a lakeside pavilion being swept by one of the boy attendants as he watches a crane in flight above, the crane's mate standing off to the side beyond a bridge being crossed by two boys carrying a large bird cage, on both the sky is in dark green lacquer and the water of ochre color, within a double key-fret border, raised on a trestle support decorated with bats amidst foliate sprays and with openwork endless-knot flanges flanking the side posts
24¾ x 25½ in. (62.9 x 64.8 cm.)

Lot Essay

Compare the large table screen of this type carved with a scene of the 'Ode to the Red Cliff' illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Carved Lacquer Ware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1971, pl. 33 and pp. 90-1.

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