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Image courtesy of The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

227 † W Tables inlaid with bone or ivory decoration are extremely rare in
A RARE BONE-INLAID LACQUERED LOW TABLE, KANG comparison to the use of mother of pearl for similar decoration
17th century on kang tables. However, the use of bone inlay can be seen on
The rectangular table supported on four square-section cabriole smaller objects such as document boxes; see for example a black
legs terminating in everted hoof feet, intricately inlaid in bone on the lacquer bone-inlaid sedan -chair document box and cover, first half
top depicting officials and their attendants observed by a lady and 17th century, from the Sir Harry Garner Collection in the Fitzwilliam
servants by a verandah in a mountainous river landscape, framed by Museum, Cambridge, illustrated in the Oriental Ceramic Society and
butterflies amongst various scattered fruit and flower sprays, including British Museum exhibition Chinese Ivories from the Shang to the Qing,
plum blossom, pomegranate, persimmon, finger citron and lotus London, 1984, p.195, pl.282
blossom, the sides decorated with precious objects, the apron and
legs flanked by confronted dragons pursuing the flaming pearl. The white bone inlay on the black lacquer background offers a
27.5cm (10 3/4in) high x 100.5cm (39 1/2in) wide x 61.5cm (24in) restrained yet powerful contrast emphasising the figural scene amidst
deep the mountainous landscape.

£80,000 - 120,000 CNY770,000 - 1,200,000
HK$940,000 - 1,400,000

十七世紀 黑漆嵌骨女士休憩圖炕桌

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