An eight-panel partial coromandel Screen


19th centuryThe panels part of a larger twelve-panel screen, each panel thinly sectioned and carved in shallow relief with a discontinuous palace complex of pavilions, walkways and gardens filled with officials and their attendants, palace ladies and their children, palace guards and musicians picked out in subdued colors on a brown lacquer ground; the reverse carved with a discontinuous long inscription bearing a cyclical date Kangxi yi-you corresponding to 1705 (incomplete, losses, repairs). 74 3/4 x 136in (189 x 345cm)