LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A JADE-INSET GILT-DECORATED RED LACQUER EIGHT-PANEL SCREEN
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each narrow panel is inset with five spinach-green jade plaques, finely painted on both sides with various scenes of birds and flowers, and terraced pavilions amidst river landscapes and mountains, and framed in red lacquer painted in gold with archaistic scroll. Each of the panels has extended vertical posts in red lacquer decorated with floral decoration in gilt, green, and red pigments, which form the legs joined by similarly painted shaped aprons.
69¾ in. (147.2 cm.) high, 13 3/8 in. (34 cm.) wide, 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) deep, each panel

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong in the late 1950s-60s.

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Lot Essay

A slightly larger (184.4 cm. high) related jade-inset gilt-decorated red lacquer, eight-panel screen is illustrated by Stanley Charles Nott, A Catalogue of Rare Chinese Jade Carvings, Palm Beach Florida, 1940, pp. 60-64. The jade-inset panels are painted with landscape scenes depicting the 'Sixty-Four Islands of Immortal Existence', the flowers of the twelve months, and the four flowers of the four seasons. Another similarly painted jade-inset screen in red lacquer, but with six panels, is in The Avery Brundage Collection, B60J978 and currently on view at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.

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