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THE ELEMENTS 18TH CENTURY
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A RARE EMBELLISHED ZITAN TABLE SCREEN
THE ELEMENTS 18TH CENTURY
The panel inlaid in jade, cloisonné enamel, ivory, bone, zitan, hardstone, and lacquer with Buddhist and Daoist deities, precious objects, scholarly accoutrements, and a lacquer wall vase inset with a jade panel inscribed with an imperial ode to the peach blossom, all reserved on the ochre lacquer ground and set into the zitan base carved on the aprons with bats amidst clouds, supported by vase-shaped struts on either end flanked by standing chilong spandrels, the whole raised on shoe feet carved with borders of pendent ruyi heads
28 3/16 in. (71.6 cm.) high, 25¼ in. (64.2 cm.) wide
THE ELEMENTS 18TH CENTURY
The panel inlaid in jade, cloisonné enamel, ivory, bone, zitan, hardstone, and lacquer with Buddhist and Daoist deities, precious objects, scholarly accoutrements, and a lacquer wall vase inset with a jade panel inscribed with an imperial ode to the peach blossom, all reserved on the ochre lacquer ground and set into the zitan base carved on the aprons with bats amidst clouds, supported by vase-shaped struts on either end flanked by standing chilong spandrels, the whole raised on shoe feet carved with borders of pendent ruyi heads
28 3/16 in. (71.6 cm.) high, 25¼ in. (64.2 cm.) wide
Special notice
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