A RARE LARGE HUANGHUALI FLOOR SCREEN, ZUOPINGR
A RARE LARGE HUANGHUALI FLOOR SCREEN, ZUOPINGR

QING DYNASTY, 17TH/18TH CENTURY

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A RARE LARGE HUANGHUALI FLOOR SCREEN, ZUOPINGR
QING DYNASTY, 17TH/18TH CENTURY
The tall upper frame enclosing a mirror is well carved in openwork with panels of flowering and fruiting branches including lotus, pomegranate, chrysanthemum, prunus, magnolia and finger citron, all enclosed by an outer frame, set into the stand flanked by vertical posts supported by standing spandrels joined by two stretchers holding openwork panels of confronted writhing chilong amidst intricate floral scroll. The curved and cusped apron is beaded and carved in relief with a pair of chilong flanking a central ruyi head, all raised on thick shoe feet.
84 1/2 in. (214.7 cm.) high, 41 in. (104.1 cm.) wide, 27 1/8 in. (68.9 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

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 Institute 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.
Another slightly smaller (196.8 cm. high) closely related huanghuali floor screen was sold at Christie's New York, 22-23rd March 2011, 1759.

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