Bidspirit auction | A Collection of 20th Century

A Collection of 20th Century Chinese Decorative Arts and Scholar's Objects Including a Folding Table Screen and Calligraphy Set - A collection of 20th-century Chinese decorative arts, scholar's objects, and commemorative items. The lot features a three-panel folding table screen with dual-sided decoration. The primary face depicts multi-coloured birds amongst flowering plum and bamboo branches in relief on a cream-coloured ground. The reverse is finished in black lacquer with gilt-heightened incised designs of vases, floral arrangements, and a cat. The panels are supported by a dark-stained, pierce-carved wooden base with ruyi-style scrolling motifs. Included is a comprehensive calligraphy writing set presented in a silk-brocade box with a red velvet-lined interior. The set comprises two mottled bamboo-handled brushes, an oval dark grey inkstone with a small gilt-metal water spoon, a black ink stick with gilt dragon decoration, a carved stone seal with a mythical creature finial, a blue and white porcelain mountain-form brush rest, and two small porcelain vessels featuring blue dragon motifs. The collection further contains a cast bronze commemorative medal depicting a high-relief landscape of traditional architecture, presented in a black presentation box with a yellow satin lining. It is accompanied by a printed certificate titled 中華盛世 武當大典 (Zhonghua Shengshi Wudang Dadian). Completing the lot is an incised pyrographed gourd on a wooden stand depicting a lady in a landscape, a cream-coloured figurine of a deity holding a lotus (presented in a fabric-lined box), and a group of small figures including an unglazed earthenware Buddha, a painted ceramic monk, and a Shoulao figurine.