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Hanging wall screens inset with Dali marble plaques like the present examples became popular during
the late Ming and Qing dynasties. Each panel of marble, with its natural veins and inclusions running
through it, suggests a mountainous landscape. Thus, on the walls of a scholar’s studio, they ofered
varied and momentary escapes from the humdrum of the domestic environ. Compare with the very
similar set of four currently on view in the Astor Court in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1995.418a-d),
illustrated by Paul Moss in When Men and Mountains Meet: Chinese and Japanese Spirit Rocks, London,
1995, no. 48. See, also, a set of four screens, but each with four marble panels, illustrated by Tian
Jiaqing, Classic Chinese Furniture of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1996, pp. 246-47, no. 110.
清十九世紀 紅木嵌雲石詩文掛屏一組四扇

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