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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY TAPPER GOLDMAN 重要中४藝術暨高曼珍藏

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A VERY RARE AND UNUSUAL EIGHT-PANEL The present screen combines the technical mastery of furniture of the screen, most notably the panels. Each huanghuali panel is additional mother-of-pearl embellishments alongside soapstone and
SOAPSTONE AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID construction and carving with the subtle carving techniques of centered by a singular soapstone figure inlaid into a shaped medallion. includes nearly identical renditions of luohans and immortals, as
HUANGHUALI FOLDING SCREEN the lapidary artist. This eight-panel folding screen was reduced The contrast of materials and color create a vibrant decorative effect. the screen in the MQJ Collection. Interestingly, the present screen
from a larger twelve-panel screen, and is constructed from joining includes European subjects and foreigners, each shown alongside
17TH CENTURY
vertical posts, and huanghuali panels inset with soapstone figural A complete twelve-panel huanghuali folding screen is illustrated mythical beasts in the lowest register, an element notably absent in
76w in. (195.4 cm.) high, 22¡ in. (57 cm.) wide, each panel
panels. Larger vertical apertures, which could have held paintings by Grace Wu Bruce in The Best of The Best: The MQJ Collection the MQJ Collection screen. Another notable difference is the carved
$80,000-120,000 or textiles, would have dominated the center of the screen, and of Ming Furniture, vol. 2, Beijing, 2017, pp. 428-34. This screen is dragons encircling the panels, while the panels on the present screen
are now lost. In its current configuration, the screen was reduced distinguished by twenty-four soapstone-inlaid panels depicting are set within openwork dragons.
十ˑˠ紀 黃花梨ณ壽山⊅及螺鈿́ḵՋ扇屏風 in height, thereby highlighting the distinctive decorative elements luohans, immortals, and mythical beasts. The present screen, has
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