A nine-panel reverse painted glass and wood folding screenLate Qing dynasty
The middle register of the interior seven panels depicting a continuous figural tableau of the virtuous official Guo Ziyi and his wife enjoying his birthday and the material rewards of a long life well-lived, mounted above a horizontal band of smaller glass panes depicting recumbent mythical or scholarly figures and below a horizontal band of inscribed famous landmarks of Guangzhou province, between additional figural panes and taller vertical panes on either end inscribed zhilan qiwei song yun [cao] and longma jingshen hai he zi; all mounted in wood frames supporting carved lotus and vine floating panels; the reverse mounted for suspension on a wall.
60in (152.4cm) high注脚The small landscape panels along the top register are the famous sights of Guangzhou as listed in the Yangcheng Bajing published in the Tongzhi/Guangxu era.