Incised and decorated with a continuous celebratory scene, the borders alternating blossoming sprigs and scholar’s objects; the reverse with a continuous hunting scene, the borders alternating blossoming sprigs and animals and birds in landscapes
111¹⁄₄ in. (282.5 cm) high; 18¹⁄₂ in. (46.9 cm.) wide, each panel

Collection of J.P. Morgan Part One; Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 8 January 1944, lot 577.
Property of Mr. and Mrs. James Campbell Lewis, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 17-18 November 1950, lot 313.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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The present lot once belonged to the renowned collector, J. Pierpont Morgan, whose collection spanned nearly every category and included an impressive group of exceptional Chinese works of art. Morgan was an extremely important benefactor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which now houses much of his collection that was not sold in the 1944 sales at Parke-Bernet. This screen may well have once been installed in the JP Morgan house on Madison Avenue, before it was demolished in 1927. For archival images and further information on the house's interiors, see A. Lewis, J. Turner, and S. McQuillin, The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age, New York, 1987, pp. 144-147.