A rare large pair of white jade 'immortals' screens Qing dynasty | 清 白玉天女散花硯屏一對

Property from the De An Tang Collection

A rare large pair of white jade 'immortals' screens

Qing dynasty

德安堂藏玉

清 白玉天女散花硯屏一對

each worked on one side with a wondrous scene portraying celestial beings in an ethereal landscape depicted with tall pine trees and jagged rockwork, one screen with two immortals soaring through the sky on a phoenix and crane respectively, the other with a female immortal standing on cloud scrolls and scattering floral petals, the reverse of each screen decorated in low relief with a cat emerging from behind floral sprigs, wood stands

31.2 by 21.9 cm