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Pair of Chinese red-lacquered, two-paneled folding screens decorated with inlaid semi-precious stones, including jade, lapis lazuli, quartz, malachite, and additional stones, 20th century. Provenance: The Distinguished Collection of Leo & Doris Hodroff. Each screen depicts court ladies engaged in leisure pursuits in lush exterior scenes. One screen with a panel picturing a beauty looking outwards from a pagoda while she fishes, while a pair of women float through calm waters upstream; the other panel features a court lady leaning beneath a flowering tree as her attendant approaches with tea. The other screen with a panel depicting two beauties gathered along the shoreline, one watches over her friend, who bathes textiles in the calm water as two mandarin ducks float by; the other panel depicting a female court figure practicing jianwu, or a traditional sword dance, while her attendant waits patiently. (Two-panel sections, each) Height: 72 in x width: 35 1/2 in x depth: 14 in. (Each, approximately) Weight: in excess of 200 lbs.
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