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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
~1003
A JADE-EMBELLISHED BLACK LACQUER AND HONGMU TABLE SCREEN
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The lacquered panel is within a wood frame carved as an unrolled scroll, and is embellished on one side in
jade with one hundred fu characters carved in various forms of seal script. The stand is inlaid on one side
of the apron in silver wire with a central shou symbol fanked by archaistic scrolls, and has silver wire-inlaid
vase-shaped supports on the sides fanked by scrolling chilong spandrels, all raised on waisted shoe feet
with further silver wire decoration.
27æ in. (70.5 cm.) high, 24º in. (61.5 cm.) wide
$8,000-12,000
Compare the rectangular zitan-veneered foor screen inlaid with 120 shou characters sold at Christie’s
New York, 16-17 September 2010, lot 1200.
清十八/十九世紀 硬木嵌玉「百福」插屏
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