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A MOTHER-OF-PEARL- INLAID BLACK Compare a closely related cabinet in the Charlottenburg
LACQUER CABINET Palace, Berlin, illustrated in Madeleine Jarry, Chinoiserie:
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD Chinese Influence on European Decorative Art 17th and
18th Centuries, London, 1981, p. 155, Ill. 164; and another,
of rectangular form, fitted with two hinged doors above a possibly purchased Elizabeth Percy, Dutchess of Somerset
deep apron, opening to reveal twenty drawers of various (1667-1722) and now in the private collection of Lord
sizes, embellished to the front with mother-of-pearl Egremont, currently on view in the Grand Staircase at
depicting an animated scene of mounted huntsmen and Petworth House, West Sussex.
women engaged in combat set within a landscape with
gnarled branches issuing clusters of leaves emerging † W £ 15,000-20,000
from rocks, all against a black lacquered ground, the hinges HK$ 147,000-196,000 US$ 18,800-25,000
and lockplates detailed with four-clawed dragons and carp 清康熙 黑漆嵌螺鈿人物故事圖方角櫃
interspersed with ruyi pendants, together with a European
19th Century cabriole legged lacquered wood stand
(2)
90.5 by 53.5 by 83.5 cm, 35⅝ by 21 by 32⅞ in.
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