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Lot Essay
Decorative stone panels have long been prized by the literati for their abstract imagery and complex patterns. Often evoking dramatic landscapes, these panels were set into tables, display stands or screens. Table screens, such as the present example, were set on the scholar's desk to encourage reflection.
A huanghauli and jumu table screen with related inset green mottled stone and framed with pierced decorative panels is illustrated by Zhang Jinhua in The Classical Chinese Furniture of Weiyang: Representative Examples, vol, 2, London, 2016, p. 294-5. Compare a larger green marble-inset table screen (64.8 cm.), with more elaborately carved huanghuali frame, dating to the late 16th-early 17th century, currently in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and illustrated by R. Jacobsen, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999, pp. 208-9, pl. 78. See, also, another green marble-inset huanghuali table screen, formerly in the Lai Family Collection, sold at Christie's New York, 17 September 2015, lot 908.
A huanghauli and jumu table screen with related inset green mottled stone and framed with pierced decorative panels is illustrated by Zhang Jinhua in The Classical Chinese Furniture of Weiyang: Representative Examples, vol, 2, London, 2016, p. 294-5. Compare a larger green marble-inset table screen (64.8 cm.), with more elaborately carved huanghuali frame, dating to the late 16th-early 17th century, currently in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and illustrated by R. Jacobsen, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999, pp. 208-9, pl. 78. See, also, another green marble-inset huanghuali table screen, formerly in the Lai Family Collection, sold at Christie's New York, 17 September 2015, lot 908.