Mother-of pearl inlay wooden screen
Accession Nr.: | 57.56.1-2 |
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Type: | object for daily use; carving |
Date of production: |
19th century
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Place of production: | |
Acquisition: | collection of Dezső Bozóky |
Materials/Techniques: | wood, mother-of pearl inlay, openwork |
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Dimensions: | insert: height: 60, 5 cm width: 47, 5 cm stand: height: 43, 5 cm width: 54, 5 cm |
Wooden mother-of pearl inlaid (peony motif) frame with a decorative inset of the same material, featuring a group of people in the centre. The inlaid figures together form a pyramidal composition. In the centre is a male figure holding a symbolic sceptre (ruyi), with a small female character behind him, holding a fan over the head of man. Besides, we can discover several other figures in the foreground: an older man on the left, with a calabash hanging from his stick, and a lotus on his left palm. In front of him is a small boy with a scroll, right next to an almost indistinguishable animal that may once have been a chi-lin with a child on its back. On the other side of the Chinese unicorn, symmetrical with the previous ones, a figure of a small child peers out from behind the back of an adult.