A WHITE JADE INSET CLOISONNE ENAMEL TABLE SCREENQianlong Period cloisonné enamel frame; 18th/19th century jade panel
The rectangular jade panel finely carved with a fruiting pipa tree on one side and a twenty-character poem on the other, mounted by a removable cloisonné enamel frame, the cloisonné enamel stand with detailed lattice qilong panels supported by a pair of bracket feet, an openwork floral panel at the center above a pair of ruyi-shaped aprons.
10 1/8in (26cm) overall highFootnotes乾隆時期 嵌絲琺瑯裝十八/十九世紀白玉插屏
The gilt-decorated poem pay be read as:
露襲仙裾重 風傳金粟香
蟾宮秋信早 齊見五枝芳
廣寒仙客
Small table screens of this type, depicting a scene of nature and accompanied by a poem on the reverse, served as sources of inspiration for Chinese scholars. On this jade panel, the loquat (pipa) tree blooms in the fall and its fruit ripens in the spring, while the poem hinting the fall by mentioning chestnuts and osmanthus, are all reminders of the changing season and the joy of life.
A cloisonné enamel table screen inset with a white jade panel, very similar to the present example, was sold at Sotheby's London, 9 November 2016, lot 12.
A WHITE JADE INSET CLOISONNE ENAMEL TABLE SCREENQianlong Period cloisonné enamel frame; 18th/19th century jade panel
The rectangular jade panel finely carved with a fruiting pipa tree on one side and a twenty-character poem on the other, mounted by a removable cloisonné enamel frame, the cloisonné enamel stand with detailed lattice qilong panels supported by a pair of bracket feet, an openwork floral panel at the center above a pair of ruyi-shaped aprons.
10 1/8in (26cm) overall highFootnotes乾隆時期 嵌絲琺瑯裝十八/十九世紀白玉插屏
The gilt-decorated poem pay be read as:
露襲仙裾重 風傳金粟香
蟾宮秋信早 齊見五枝芳
廣寒仙客
Small table screens of this type, depicting a scene of nature and accompanied by a poem on the reverse, served as sources of inspiration for Chinese scholars. On this jade panel, the loquat (pipa) tree blooms in the fall and its fruit ripens in the spring, while the poem hinting the fall by mentioning chestnuts and osmanthus, are all reminders of the changing season and the joy of life.
A cloisonné enamel table screen inset with a white jade panel, very similar to the present example, was sold at Sotheby's London, 9 November 2016, lot 12.
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