A rare embellished zitan table screen, the elements 18th century
Lot 1389. A rare embellished zitan table screen, the elements 18th century; 28 3/16 in. (71.6 cm.) high, 25¼ in. (64.2 cm.) wide. Estimate USD 200,000 - USD 300,000. Price realised USD 242,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
The panel inlaid in jade, cloisonné enamel, ivory, bone, zitan, hardstone, and lacquer with Buddhist and Daoist deities, precious objects, scholarly accoutrements, and a lacquer wall vase inset with a jade panel inscribed with an imperial ode to the peach blossom, all reserved on the ochre lacquer ground and set into the zitan base carved on the aprons with bats amidst clouds, supported by vase-shaped struts on either end flanked by standing chilong spandrels, the whole raised on shoe feet carved with borders of pendent ruyi heads.
Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Part I and Part II Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 24 March 2011