A HARDSTONE-INLAID WOOD TABLE SCREEN QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

of rectangular form, the carved wood panel inlaid with various hardstones including coral, soapstone, mother-of-pearl, agate and ivory, one face decorated with a military general and two scholars standing or seated around a table engaged in calligraphy, all set amidst a rocky landscape with leafy shrubs beneath scrolling clouds, the reverse with two archaic bronze vessels including a gu-shaped vase, all supported on a pierced wood stand

Collection of the Hon. Mrs Nellie Ionides.

Ionides Familly Collection.

 

There is a 5cm age crack running vertically up from the middle bottom of the panel and a circa 5.5cm crack between the panel and the border which is slightly loose. The lower section of the mother-of-pearl inlaid gu-vase to the reverse of the panel might have been lost and replaced by another type of hardstone.
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