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A DOCUMENTARY CARVED DUAN STONE
‘THREE STAR GODS’ SCREEN
19th century
Carved on one side in high relief with a group of
weiqi players with two boys in attendance and a
recumbent stag to one side, in a clearing beneath
a tall pine and rockwork, the stone of dark-reddish
brown and grey-green tones, inscribed to the lower
left corner with a nineteen-character inscription
indicating that this panel was a gift for the recipient’s
sixtieth birthday, the reverse plain.
35cm (13 3/4 in) square.
£1,500 - 2,000
CNY14,000 - 18,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

十九世紀 仙人對弈圖端石硯屏

The inscription reads:

文虎先生六秩榮壽大慶
劉琰光 灼光 碧光敬祝

which may be translated as:

For Sir Wenhu’s sixtieth birthday celebration
Best regards from Liu Yanguang, Zhuoguang,
309 and Biguang.

310 Y
A DUAN STONE TABLE SCREEN
18th century
Finely carved in relief with a cluster of bamboo and
blossoming prunus branches issuing from a gnarled
trunk, cleverly defined in grey-green, buff and
reddish-brown tones, carved hongmu stand and
metal mount.
The panel 38.5cm (15 1/8in) x 30.5cm (12in). (2).
£5,000 - 8,000
CNY45,000 - 72,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

十八世紀 端石雕梅竹紋硯屏

Provenance: R.Soame Jenyns (1904–1976),
Deputy Keeper of the Department of Oriental
Antiquities, British Museum (1950-1968)

Published and Illustrated: R.Soame Jenyns and
W.Watson, Chinese Art, The Minor Arts II, London,
1965, pl.176

來源：R.Soame Jenyns（1904-1976）舊藏，其曾
於1950至1968年間任大英博物館東方古董部副主任

出版著錄：R.Soame Jenyns與W.Watson，
《Chinese Art, The Minor Arts II》，倫敦，1965
年，圖版編號176

Together with pine, bamboo and prunus are two
of the ‘Three Friends of Winter’, an auspicious
group of naturally-occurring trees symbolising long
life, perseverance, and integrity, the virtues of the
ideal scholar-gentleman, and also the three main
religions of China, namely Buddhism, Daoism and
310 Confucianism. See a related example illustrated in
The Chinese Scholars Desk 17th to 18th century,
Oxford, 1979, no.79.
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