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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
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A CLOISONNE ENAMEL TABLE
SCREEN AND STAND
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
One side of the screen depicts an immortal with an
inlaid face standing in scholar’s robes, holding a ruyi
sceptre in one hand and a double gourd in the other.
The reverse is decorated with a lotus spray above
precious objects on a cracked ice ground bordered
by a band of scrolling vine.
10 ƒ in. (26.8 cm.) high overall, box
HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-64,000

Compare with a pair of cloisonné enamel table
screens and stands with a similar subject matter
of an immortal to one side and precious objects
to the other sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June
2011, lot 3601.
A pair of screens also with immortals to one
side and almost identical precious objects to
the reverse is found in the Uldry Collection,
illustrated in H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinese
Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, London,
1989, nos. 172 and 173. Another pair of double-
sided screens with a similar decoration and
mother-of-pearl inlaid faces is in the collection of
the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris illustrated
in B. Quette (ed), Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels
from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, New
York, 2011, p. 290, no. 127 and figs. 4.24a, and
4.24b.

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