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Small table screen, Huanghuali wood & Dalishi marble Late Ming (1573–1644)
Estimate
120,000 - 120,000 HKD
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Description
Exhibited
Macau, 2003, The Macao Museum of Art “The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture”
Hong Kong, 2007, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Feast by a wine table reclining on a couch: The Dr. S. Y. Yip
Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture III”
Hong Kong, 2007, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Feast by a wine table reclining on a couch: The Dr. S. Y. Yip
Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture III”
Literature
Grace Wu Bruce, Feast by a wine table reclining on a couch: The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture III, Hong Kong, 2007, pp. 172 – 173
Catalogue Note
Similar example:
Li Chu-Tsing and James C Y Watt (eds), The Chinese Scholar’s Studio: Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period, New York, 1987, p. 125 for a smaller screen made in zitan wood excavated from the Wanli period (1573 – 1620) tomb of Zhu Shoucheng in Gucun zhen, Baoshan xian, Shanghai
Li Chu-Tsing and James C Y Watt (eds), The Chinese Scholar’s Studio: Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period, New York, 1987, p. 125 for a smaller screen made in zitan wood excavated from the Wanli period (1573 – 1620) tomb of Zhu Shoucheng in Gucun zhen, Baoshan xian, Shanghai
Table screens of this size are called yanping, inkstone screen, for shielding ground ink from wind. Refer to the 15th century handscroll by Xie Huan, “A Literary Gallery in the Apricot Garden” in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where a similar screen is placed next to an inkstone.