A PAIR OF CHINESE SPINACH-GREEN JADE TABLE SCREENS

LATE QING DYNASTY

Each carved in shallow relief with a mountainous village landscape with pagodas, trees and boats to one side and with birds perched on blossoming floral sprays sprouting from rockwork to the reverse, mounted on wood stands, each 29.5cm x 22cm. (4)

Provenance: from an English private collection acquired prior to 1970.

Cf. Chinese Jades from the collection of the Seattle Art Museum, p.96, no.75 for a similar pair of smaller nephrite table screens, and also Later Chinese Jades from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, p.123, no.103 for a single smaller screen. National Palace Museum, Art in Quest of Heaven and Truth, Chinese Jades through the Ages, pp.127 and 157, pl.7-1-4 and 7-5-2 for further examples of similar small screens.