Wooden panel with white jade ‘Landscape’, Qing dynasty

A rectangular panel of finely worked dark wood in the form of a table screen, supported on a raised base with short legs joined by openwork crosspieces. The lower part of the panel is decorated with openwork decorations of peonies and intertwining leaves.

 It supports a translucent white jade plaque of horizontal rectangular shape, finely carved in bas-relief on both sides. One side depicts a mountainous landscape scene with two elderly figures in conversation under a pine tree, accompanied by a servant and surrounded by rock formations. On the reverse is a more serene scene with flowering peony branches emerging from a cliff. The jade carving is precise and smooth. Qing dynasty (1644-1912) or later.

Jade size: 14.5 x 12 cm; overall size: 25 x 19 cm