QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A CARVED RED AND BLACK LACQUER RECTANGULAR TABLE SCREEN
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
One side well carved in high relief through the red layers with an arrangement of 'antiques,' flowers and fruit reserved on a blackish diaper ground, the reverse with a scene of various immortals and attendants in a mountainous retreat with a large pavilion overlooking a lake where three female attendants are seen in a boat and Liuhai stands on his three-legged toad atop the roiling waves, within a frame carved with composite foliate scroll repeated on the stand around a long panel carved with further foliate scroll centered by a shou medallion on each side, with angular scroll spandrels projecting from the side posts, the aprons carved with bats in flight amidst clouds
26 in. (66 cm.) high, 25½ in. (64.7 cm.) long

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Compare the large table screen of this type carved with a scene of the 'Ode to the Red Cliff,' illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Carved Lacquer Ware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1971, pl. 33 and pp. 90-1. See, also, the closely related example sold in these rooms, 22 March 2007, lot 161.