A RARE IMPERIAL SOAPSTONE PANEL OF FOREIGNERS KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) The panel is decorated with finely carved soapstone figures of Europeans, probably Portuguese or Dutch, shown in a rocky landscape, all with curly hair, and dressed in European attire. The men are gathered around a young boy seated on an ostrich, all set against a ground of pieced soapstone incised with tufts of grass, with rocks in the foreground and off to one side a waterfall partially obscured by clouds and pine trees, and the sky indicated by further pieced soapstone carved with diaper pattern. Together with the catalogue by John Wanamaker, A Notable Carved and Painted Twelve-fold Chinese Screen of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries from the Imperial Palace in Pekin, New York and Philadelphia, 1928. 16 ¼ x 18 in. (41.3 x 46 cm.) including hardwood frame
A RARE IMPERIAL SOAPSTONE PANEL OF FOREIGNERS KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) The panel is decorated with finely carved soapstone figures of Europeans, probably Portuguese or Dutch, shown in a rocky landscape, all with curly hair, and dressed in European attire. The men are gathered around a young boy seated on an ostrich, all set against a ground of pieced soapstone incised with tufts of grass, with rocks in the foreground and off to one side a waterfall partially obscured by clouds and pine trees, and the sky indicated by further pieced soapstone carved with diaper pattern. Together with the catalogue by John Wanamaker, A Notable Carved and Painted Twelve-fold Chinese Screen of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries from the Imperial Palace in Pekin, New York and Philadelphia, 1928. 16 ¼ x 18 in. (41.3 x 46 cm.) including hardwood frame
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