Provenance: Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel (1852-1921)
Lady Delamere.

Exhibited: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, 1961-1998

Note: These rare table screens appear to have originally been part of a larger set that have now been dispersed and other examples can be found in two important collections. They are all decorated with scenes of the Daoist immortals on one side (each panel depicts a different immortal), and precious objects on the reverse and they are all supported on identical stands. A pair in the Uldry Collection is illustrated in Chinese Cloisoonne: The Pierre Uldry Collection, London, 1989, nos. 170 and 171. The second pair in the collection of Les Arts decoratifs - musee des Arts decoratifs was included in the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture exhibition Cloisonne: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dyansties, New York, 2011, and illustrated in the Catalogue, P. 290, no. 127 and figs. 4.24a, and 4.24b.

Christie's. The Imperial Sale, Hong Kong, 1 June 2011