screen as having beenmade between the years 1506 and 1522—that is, about the middle of the Ming period.Each panel is in three divisions encased inrose-wood mounts. The taste of the artistwho designed and executed this screen, likethe perfections of the stones which he usedfor its decoration, is… … EIGHT-FOLD SCREEN OF BLACKLACQUER, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY compares favourably with the two screensof the same character which are to be seenin The Victoria and Albert Museum. It iselaborately decorated with some story per-taining to one or other of the principalChinese religions—Confucianism,…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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