A PAIR OF SIBERIAN JADE TABLE SCREENS 19TH / 20TH CENTURY

each of rectangular form, the fronts finely incised with gilt inlay and the backs deeply carved, the first with an incised scene of scholars and travelers in a mountainous landscape with fishing boats in the distance and an accompanying poetic inscription, a carved vignette of two boys herding water buffalo on the opposite side, the second with an incised image of a scholar and attendant traversing a mountain path toward a far-off pavilion and pagoda also with a poetic inscription, the verso with two men leading horses to a feed trough, apocryphal Qianlong seals carved on each, wood stands (4)