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A RARE TURQUOISE-MATRIX SCREEN
Mid Qing Dynasty
The light green stone expertly carved on one side with a mountainous
landscape, with various trees and two woodcutters, one carrying a
lingzhi, in a rocky crevice a table with a jar, the clouds in gilt, a gilt key-
fret border around the edges of the screen, the reverse with nineteen
auspicious bats amidst swirling ruyi-clouds painted in gilt, with finely
carved wood stand.
The panel, 23.7cm (9 4/8in) high. (2).

£30,000 - 50,000
CNY260,000 - 440,000

清中期 綠松石雕林中仙人圖座屏

Although turquoise stone inlay was relatively common, it is extremely
rare to have such a large piece used as a screen. Turquoise came
mainly from Persia via Turkistan and so was sometimes called Turkish
stone. Apart from jade, the Qing court - especially the Yongzheng and
Qianlong emperors who enjoyed novelty - commissioned a variety of
objects made from other stone materials including turquoise, lapis-
lazuli, and malachite.

See for example, a pair of related turquoise screens, Qing dynasty,
illustrated in Jade: Ch’ing Dynasty Treasures, Taipei, 1998, pl.29. See
also a malachite stone screen carved with a landscape and figures,
Qing dynasty, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in Gugong
zhenbao, Beijing, 2004, p.166. See also a lapis-lazuli screen also
carved with landscape and figures, and Imperial poem, Qing dynasty,
illustrated in Qing dai yu diao yishu, Taipei, 1994, p.53.

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