EIGHT LEAF COROMANDEL LAQUER VENTING, CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18th CENTURY Decorated with lively scenes of noblewomen and their servants engaged in various activities in palaces or gardens planted with trees (Bai Mei Tu, the hundred beauties) on the front, and cranes, mandarin ducks, geese, swallows,... at the edge of a pond planted with various flowers on the reverse, the rim decorated with dragons, landscapes and furnishings (vases, incense burners, scholar's objects, etc.); minor restorations, cracks and small chips to the lacquer. Size (one sheet): 247 × 42.8 cm (97 ¼ × 16 ¾ in.) A Coromandel lacquer eight-fold screen, China, Qing dynasty, 18th century