Lot 134
A second half of the 19th Century soapstone table screen, the chocolate-coloured stone carved with four houses built on rocks by a lake under pine trees and with details including a farmer with a buffalo, others in a rice field, mountains in the distance isolated in toffee-coloured inclusions, signed on the reverse 33.5cm x 26.5cm contained in a carved hardwood stand total height 50cm SOLD £1250

There are minor chips to all corners of the screen and several small nibbles along the edges. There is a flaw in the stone running horizontally along the top through the mountain range. There are some very minor scratches to the front and reverse. There is a crack and some small chips to the pierced carved panel at the foot of the stand.

From Oriental in the European and Oriental Ceramic and Glassware section in our Antique, Fine Art and Collectables auction held on Wednesday 23rd of October 2019