A GOOD CARVED LAPIS LAZULI TABLE SCREEN QING DYNASTY, LATE QIANLONG/JIAQING PERIOD

the rectangular stone finely and deeply carved to the front face with a mountainous landscape scene, depicting a groom crossing over a river on a stone bridge with a pair of elephants, all amidst rocks, pine and swirling mist, inscribed with an Imperial poem and with two seal marks of the Qianlong Emperor, the reverse incised and gilt with a mountainous landscape scene, the stone of mottled white to vivid saphire-blue tone, carved and pierced archaistic wood stand