A LARGE INLAID LACQUER SCREEN QING DYNASTY, 18TH – 19TH CENTURY

elaborately inlaid in an array of hardstones including mother-of-pearl, soapstone, agate, lapis lazuli and stained horn, decorated with a heron and a pair of Chinese bulbul in a pond flourishing with lotus blooms and reed, further inscribed with an auspicious idiom pertaining to the scene, all surrounded by a border of flower scroll