A CHINESE SOAPSTONE 'SCHOLARS' TABLE SCREEN

QING DYNASTY

The yellow stone worked as a square panel raised on a stand, carved to one side with three scholars standing beneath a pine tree in a mountainous river landscape, one figure points up to the carnelian-coloured sun above, the reverse decorated in relief with a blossoming prunus branch set between two vases, 14.2cm x 14.8cm.