A SPINACH GREEN JADE GILT-DECORATED TABLE SCREEN QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

of rectangular form, each side incised and painted in gilding, on one side four sages and an attendant amidst mountains and foliage, on the reverse large chrysanthemum blooms and rockwork, both sides inscribed with lines of poetry, fitted wooden stand (2)

The Hartman Collection.
Parke Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 7th October 1971, lot 333.

Areas in the stone that have inclusions or fissures lines appear to have been reincised and regilded to better incorporate the natural markings in the stone into the design.
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