A small carved hongmu lacquer-inset eight-panel screenQing Dynasty, dated by inscription to Dingchou year (AD1817 or AD1877)
The front carved in shallow relief with registers of archaistic scrolling designs above and below the inset, black ground plaques painted in gilt, red and white with bucolic landscapes, the reverse with carved panels of flowers, hundred antiques and mythical beasts, the reverse of the plaques with a calligraphic paragraph from Zhu Fuzi's Moral Tales. 67cm (26 3/8in) x 124.5cm (49in)