Important South African & International Art, Furniture, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 13 October 2014
Continental & Oriental Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Glass including collections of Chinese Jade
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A Chinese tortoiseshell-mounted pierced jade table screen, 18th/19th century
composed of a pair of arched panels carved with dragons, united by an oval-shaped tortoiseshell plaque carved with courtiers and their attendants before a pavilion, the stone of mottled grey and white tone, to a hardwood frame carved with a pair of dragons contesting a flaming pearl, one panel reduced, 13,8cm high, 11cm wide