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A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER SCREEN

china , circa 1815

A superb quality mid 19th century Chinese Export black and gilt six fold lacquer screen. Profusely decorated with fabulous extremely finely detailed Chinese landscape scenes with pavilions, houses, trees and rocky outcrops amidst a lakeside scene, with figures on the shoreline and in boats on the water - the edges of the screen bordered with wonderful scrolling dragons. Each side similarly decorated but with different scenes and composition.

Stock number

AD.370
Height: 83⁷/₈ in (213 cm)
Width: 127¹/₂ in (324 cm)
A superb quality mid 19th century Chinese Export black and gilt six fold lacquer screen. Profusely decorated with fabulous extremely finely detailed Chinese landscape scenes with pavilions, houses, trees and rocky outcrops amidst a lakeside scene, with figures on the shoreline and in boats on the water - the edges of the screen bordered with wonderful scrolling dragons. Each side similarly decorated but with different scenes and composition.
David S. Howard, A Tale of Three Cities - Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong, p. 182, fig.239 (for a closely related screen)
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