Each panel is finely carved and vibrantly decorated on one side with figures in different mountainous landscapes below a short inscription describing the scene, all within an 'antiques' border between further decorative bands, carved with a lengthy gilt-filled dedicatory inscription including a cyclical date renshen, surrounded by decorative borders painted with birds, flowers, and 'antiques'.
118¹⁄₂ in. (300 cm.) high, 22³⁄₄ in. (58 cm.) wide, 3/4 in. (2 cm.) deep, each panel

Collection of C. Ruxton and Audrey B. Love; their sale, Christie's, New York, The C. Ruxton and Audrey B. Love Collection: Important European Furniture and Asian Works of Art, 20 October 2004, lot 448.

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According to the inscription on the reverse, which is dated to renshen year of the Kangxi reign (1692), the screen is dedicated to Mr. Xie, the governor of Rui’an county, Zhejiang province, on the occasion of his birthday. The author of this dedicative inscription is Shen Tingwen, who was conferred the honorable title zhuangyuan (first in the highest imperial examination) in the 27th year of Kangxi (1688).

The scenes on the screen include scenic locations in Quanzhou, Fujian province, as well as in Hangzhou and Fengshan in Zhejiang province. Another screen of this type decorated with eight scenic views of Hangzhou, which also has a lengthy dedicatory inscription bearing a Kangxi date corresponding to 1670 on the reverse, in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, is illustrated by Hai-wai Chen, Chinese Art in Overseas Collections; Lacquerware, National Palace Museum, Taiwan, 1987, pp. 182-3, no. 177.