A famille rose porcelain plaque mounted as a table screen


Depicting a scholar looking backward at a bat as he stands with his walking stick beneath a peach tree branch growing from a hillside accompanied by a young attendant carrying a peach tree branch; the inscription on the upper right titled Fu Zai Yan Qian (blessings before your eyes) bearing the signature of Wang Dafan (1888-1961) and cyclical date wuchen (1928); now enclosed in a painted wood frame attached to a polychrome-painted wood stand (wear, shrinkage to wood).22 x 12 1/2in (56 x 31.7cm) sight dimensions of plaque31 3/4in (80.5cm) overall height of table screen