TWO CHINESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK LACQUER TABLE SCREEN PANELS
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
£378
Auction: 08 November 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
清康熙 黑漆嵌鏍鈿人物詩文圖桌屏（共兩件）
each panel decorated to one side with figures in a terraced garden or by river bank under the full moon, the reverse further adorned with a poetic inscription, both panels wrapped with white metal frames (2)
Dimensions
25cm x 13.2cm each
Footnote
With an old paper label attached to one panel, reading “un écran en laque noir, décoré avec des incrustations de nacre, de philosopher et enfant dans un paysage, Chine, 17em siecle”.
A comparable pair of mother-of-pearl black lacquer table screens with wooden stands, dated to the Kangxi period and similar in design, was sold at Christie’s London, 5 November 2013, lot 104.