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A PALE GREEN JADE RECTANGULAR TABLE SCREEN Table screens such as the present lot would have adorned the
18th century scholar’s desk, providing inspiration and perhaps some momentary
Finely carved on one side in low relief with a riverscape depicting two relief from the pressures of work. Typically inspired by paintings, the
peasants carrying tree branches as they walk over a bridge, one bank subject matter often reflects the Daoist preoccupation with mountain
with a small hut nestled amidst jagged rocks, behind a boy riding a retreats and retirement from worldly concerns.
water buffalo, the reverse plain, the stone of pale green tone with some
icy and russet inclusions, wood stand. Compare with the pale green jade screens, Qianlong, carved with
21.3cm (8 2/8in) high excluding the stand. (2). scenes of figures in remote landscapes, in the National Palace
Museum, Taipei, illustrated in The Refined Taste of the Emperor:
£2,000 - 3,000 Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the Ch’ing Court,
CNY18,000 - 27,000 Taipei, 1997, nos.71 and 72.

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