A PAIR OF SPINACH-GREEN JADE AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL TABLE SCREENS LATE QING DYNASTY / EARLY 20TH CENTURY

each of rectangular form, one relief carved with a lone figure fishing by a duck pond under a broad-leaf tree wrapped in vines, the other depicting the Han dynasty statesmen Su Wu as a goatherd, seated with his long-tasseled staff by the roots of an old knotted pine tree, his goats and a lone sheep grazing nearby, the reverse of each panel carved with an associated poem and signed apocryphally Qianlong yuzhi with a seal, raised on cloisonné enamel stands depicting the bajixiang, fitted for electricity (4)

Collection of Stanley Charles Nott (1902-1969).
Ashkenazie & Co., San Francisco, 1982.

Stanley Charles Nott, Voices from the Flowery Kingdom, Vermont, 1947, pl. XXXIV.
Stanley Charles Nott, Chinese Culture in the Arts, New York, 1946, front cover.