The construction and form of the present screen relate closely to a number of published screens dated to the Yuan and early Ming dynasties. Compare the form with an important documentary screen inscribed with a cyclical date corresponding to 1329, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2005, lot 1460. Two other mother-of-pearl inlaid screens of related construction dated to the Yuan and early Ming dynasties were included in the 1979 Tokyo National Museum exhibition Chinese Inlaid Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer Art, and were subsequently published in the 1981 Catalogue, nos. 26 and 41, the latter also appears to have been decorated on only one side.

Compare the depiction of the boys holding a lotus stem aloft (forming the rebus liansheng guizi, the wish for numerous progeny) to a very similar rendering of the motif on the pillar of the pavilion in the mother-of-pearl inlaid box included in the present sale, lot 1824.