A 'ZITAN' AND POLYCHROME LACQUER 'THRONE-BACK' TABLE SCREEN QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

the five-panel screen with canted ends, each inset with three tianqi lacquer panels painted with varying flowering plants, all within a zitan frame surmounted by carved panels of dragons writhing amid fiery clouds, the conforming base carved with leiwen border, above a recessed waist with five pierced panels, an extending lappet band and five openwork foliate panels within a shaped apron, all on stepped ogee-bracket feet (6)

Collection of Alice Boney (1901-1988), Hong Kong and New York.
Jizhen Zhai Collection.

Elegance of the Qing Court, Joslyn Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2008, cat. no. 110.