17TH/18TH CENTURY

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A RARE LARGE HUANGHUALI FLOOR SCREEN, ZUOPINGFENG
17TH/18TH CENTURY
The tall upper frame well carved in openwork with horizontal panels depicting writhing chilong amidst foliate scrolls and vertical panels with magnolia and pomegranate, all enclosed by an outer frame, set into the stand flanked by vertical posts supported by openwork standing spandrels joined by two stretchers holding further openwork panels of chilong, the curved and cusped apron beaded and carved with a central ruyi head, all raised on thick shoe feet
77½ in. (196.8 cm.) high, 45 cm. (114.3 cm.) wide, 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) deep

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Compare the tall screen with removable panel illustrated by N. Berliner et al., Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture from the 16th and 17th Centuries, Boston, 1996, no. 1; and another illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 90, no. E2, and vol. II, pp. 15 and 165.

For one of the largest and finest examples of a floor screen with removable upper panel, see the magnificent dali marble-inset huanghuali and tielimu screen, sold at Christie's, New York, Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, 19 September 1996, lot 66, and now in the Minneapolis Institue of Arts, illustrated by R. D. Jacobsen and N. Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999, pp. 152-3, no. 53.