A Pair of Spinach Jade Table Screens with Cloisonne Stands Qing Dynasty

the rectangular screens carved in low-relief, the first inspired by a poem by the Tang poet Wang Wei, depicting a fisherman, seated under a broad-leafed tree, the second depicting the shepherd Su Wu of the Han dynasty, seated under a twisted pine as he watches his flock, the reverse of each bearing an appropriate incised poem in clerical script composed by the Qianlong emperor, the characters picked out in gold, the stone of a flecked dark-green with scattered black spots, each screen mounted in a cloisonne stand ornamented with lotus scrolls and the bajixiang ('Eight Buddhist Emblems') (4)

Stanley Charles Nott Collection.
Ashkenazie & Co., San Francisco.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, September 1982.

Stanley Charles Nott, Flowery Kingdom, plate XXXIV.
Stanley Charles Nott, Chinese Culture in the Arts, cover.

jade in good condition, fixed in stands, goatherd screen with internal flaw running horizontally to right of head, wear to 'gold' in incised characters, some losses to enamels in stands, particularly with open scrollwork, the backs of the screens fitted for electricity
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