Carved in various levels of relief, the front side depicting with a scene from a Chinese novel of a cloudy mountainous valley landscape with an attendant carrying a lantern and an immortal holding a sceptre, his face turn and looking him, in front a pagoda temple, above a crossing river with breaking waves and two horses, one floating the other drinking, the opposite side with an imperial poem, the stone of an even celadon-white colour, wood stand.The Imperial poem of Qianlong Hogli, Qing Dynasty says: In a horse farm, there are many golden stallions, everyone believes and claims that they are like lions: they run like the wind, the light cannot chase their shadow, but only the poets praise them, the others do not recognize their uniqueness. In very good conditions, with a few very minute nicks on the edges, the stone of an even celadon-white colour with a faint shadow in the middle, very light wears on the surface.14,1 cm high, 9,7 cm wide the plaque22 cm with the wood standA FINE CARVED AND INSCRIBED WHITE PALE CELADON JADE TABLE SCREEN, CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)Provenance: from the private collection of a gentleman in Rome and thence by descentPurchased at Christie's, Rome, 20 May 1974