AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED WHITE JADE DOUBLE-SIDED 'AGRICULTURE SCENE' TABLE SCREEN QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD | 清乾隆 白玉御製詩水村圖硯屏

AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED WHITE JADE DOUBLE-SIDED 'AGRICULTURE SCENE' TABLE SCREEN

QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

清乾隆 白玉御製詩水村圖硯屏

of rectangular form, intricately worked in varying levels of relief with a mountainous riverscape depicting farmers and a buffalo engaged in agriculture and a lady across the bridge carrying two pails of water followed by a boy, the top with an imperial poem, the reverse with a similar landscape, hongmu stand

21.8 by 12.7 cm, 8 ½ by 5 in.