A Chinese porcelain inset 'longevity' three-fold table screen Early 20th century The screen with huali frame, inset with a large central panel inset with an official standing next to a pile of scrolls wearing orange robe with borders enamelled in blue, holding a ruyi scepter in bowing position, a maid holding a large fan to the back, 19 x 12cm plaque only,flanked by two plaques to each sides painted with crane on pine tree above lingzhi, and a deer holding a lingzhi in mouth beneath tall mountains,19 x 5.5cm, the screen with pierced apron in form of scrolling foliage; the screen measures 38.5 x 33cm when unfolded. 二十世紀早期 嵌粉彩繪‘長壽’圖紋桌屏

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