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Provenance: according to family tradition
the pair of screens was acquired by a family
ancestor who participated in the British ‘China
Expeditionary Force’, sent to lift the siege of
the Foreign Legations in Beijing and quell the
Boxer Rebellion in 1900-1901.

來源：據傳由家庭祖輩於1900-1901年間被派
遣鎮壓義和團運動時所得

Compare a related pale green jade rectangular
screen, Qianlong, but of larger size and with an
Imperial poem, similarly carved with a group of
three sages gathered around a scroll painting,
illustrated by T.Fok, The Splendour of Jade:
The Songzhutang Collection of Jade, Hong
Kong, 2011, pl.140. See also a related slightly
smaller pale green jade rectangular screen,
Qing Dynasty, illustrated by Zheng Xinmiao,
ed., Compendium of Collections in the Palace
Museum: Jade 8 - Qing Dynasty (1644-1911),
Beijing, 2011, pl.149.

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