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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
~1013
The term Dali stone refers today to all calcitic or dolomitic marbles, but
A LARGE AND RARE GREEN-MARBLE AND HUANGHUALI
STANDING SCREEN traditionally referred to white marbles with black veining evoking ink
paintings. This stone comes from the Diancang mountain range west of
17TH-18TH CENTURY
Dali in Yunnan province. The lushi, or green, stone, such as the present
The variegated green marble panel is set in a rectangular frame with openwork screen, is considered the most rare, and is technically a form of serpentine. A
panels carved with scrolling chilong. The reverse is decorated in gilt on a huanghuali and green marble table screen, dated to the late sixteenth-early
lacquer ground with birds and floral stems. The whole is raised on a large seventeenth century, is in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, illustrated by R.
stand, and the vertical posts are flanked by openwork spandrels and joined by
D. Jacobsen and N. Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis
pierced panels and shaped aprons. Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999, pp. 208-9, no. 78.
47Ω in. (120.6 cm.) high, 29Ω in. (74.9 cm.) wide, 14Ω in. (36.8 cm.) deep
Standing screens were placed inside entrance rooms to dispel draughts and
to ward off negative cosmic energies. Monumental standing screens could
$120,000-180,000
be placed behind the seats of important people to indicate high status. For
PROVENANCE: one of the largest and finest examples of a floor screen with removable upper
EverArts Ltd., Hong Kong, 16 December 1996. 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. Jacobson
and N. Grindley, op. cit., pp. 152-3, no. 53.

重要私人珍藏
十七/十八世紀 黃花梨嵌綠石案屏
來源:
恆藝館, 香港, 1996年12月16日

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