AN INLAID MOTHER-OF-PEARL 'FIGURE AND POEM' SCREEN MING DYNASTY

of rectangular form with indented corners, supported on a trestle stand with a bracket-shaped apron, finely inlaid in slivers of mother-of-pearl on the black lacquer ground, one side depicting scholars in a garden terrace in front of a pavilion, two of them filling three archaistic bronze vessels hanging above a square pool with water from a ewer, another greeting to the arrival of a tall bearded sage clad in elaborate robes accompanied by numerous attendants, the reverse inscribed with an eight-column poem pertaining to the importance of cultivating virtues to benefit future generations

Hayashibara collects ion, Japan.
Okayama Museum, Okayama.

Chūgoku no raden [Chinese mother-of-pearl], Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, 1979, cat. no. 43.