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908 Decorative stone panels have long been prized by
A RARE GREEN MARBLE-INSET the literati for their abstract imagery and complex
HUANGHUALI TABLE SCREEN patterns. Often evoking dramatic landscapes, these
17TH-18TH CENTURY panels were set into tables, display stands or screens.
Table screens, such as the present example, were set
The attractively variegated stone panel is on the scholar’s desk to encourage refection.
set into a removable huanghuali frame with
beaded, rounded edge, above an openwork Compare, a larger green marble-inset table screen
frieze carved with chilong confronted around (64.8 cm.), with more elaborately carved huanghuali
a simplifed ruyi head. The upright struts are frame, dating to the late 16th-early 17th century,
fanked by openwork spandrels and are set currently in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and
into shoe feet joined by shaped aprons carved illustrated by R. Jacobsen, Classical Chinese Furniture
with chilong confronted on a pearl. in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis,
13√ in. (35.2 cm.) high, 10æ in. (27.3 cm.) 1999, pp. 208-9, pl. 78.
wide, 6¬ in. (16.8 cm.) deep
明末/ 清十八世紀
$30,000-50,000 黃花梨嵌大理石座屏

PROVENANCE:

Property from the Lai Family Collection.

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