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PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

A FINELY CARVED SPINACH-GREEN JADE
‘DAOIST’ TABLE SCREEN
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

crisply carved to both sides with mountain blu s hosting pines,
waterfalls, and wisps of clouds, one side with a section of
the Great Wall spanning a high ravine, the philosopher Laozi
riding a water bu alo toward the frontier o cial Yin Xi, each
accompanied by attendants, the reverse with two stags by a
pavilion, the stone of deep green in varying tonalities, wood
stand (2)
Height 9⅜ in., 23.8 cm

PROVENANCE
Christie’s London, 10th June 1996, lot 152.
S. Bernstein & Co., San Francisco.

$ 200,000-300,000

1996 6 10 152
S Bernstein Co

Fig. 1 An important spinach-green jade table screen, Qing dynasty,
Qianlong period. Sold at Sotheby’s Paris, 22nd June 2017, lot 6

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