screen; panel (art)

Folding screen panel with a dark wooden frame and decorative porcelain tiles inset. The panel stands on two feet and has a scrolled porcelain apron decorated with dragon scrolls in underglaze blue. Three tiles have underglaze blue decoration of bat (fu) and musical stone chime (qing), which form a pun for happiness and celebration, flanked by two lotus blossom. Alternated between these blue and white tiles are two larger tiles with overglaze polychrome enamel decoration. The upper tile depicts a senior military official on lion back and one military official standing next to him in a terraced garden, with a poem inscribed above. The lower tile depicts He Xiangu, one of the Eight Daoist Immortals, sitting by rock and underneath a tree in a terraced garden. She is holding her emblem, a spray of lotus blossom.

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