A PAIR OF RARE BLUE AND WHITE TABLE SCREENS QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

each of upright rectangular form supported on four bracket feet, painted to one side with a scene of Daoist Immortals, one showing Shoulao inspecting a hanging scroll held by two attendants, the other depicting Cao Guojiu and Lu Dongbin drifting on clouds, the reverse of each painted with scholars at riverside retreats set in the mountains (2), coll. nos 1621 & 1622

'Shoulao' screen:
Collection of Gerald Reitlinger (1900-1978).
Collection of George (1911-1989) and Cornelia Wingfield Digby.
Sotheby's Olympia, 12th June 2003, lot 1095.
Berwald Oriental Art, London.
'Cao Guojiu and Lu Dongbin' screen:
Berwald Oriental Art, London.

One with a chip to one corner and along one edge at the top and a large chip to the inside of one foot and with smaller chips to two other feet. The other with a flake chip to one corner, fritting along the edges and a chip to one foot.
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Produced in the early Kangxi period, pictorial porcelain panels such as the present examples, allowed two dimensional decoration derived from painting to serve as three dimensional functional forms. The vertically oriented panels simulate hanging scroll paintings with painted borders imitating brocade mounting.