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A GROUP OF VARIOUS SCHOLAR’S
DESK ITEMS
Late Ming to late Qing
Including: a bone inlaid wood seal box; a
painted biscuit cricket box and openwork
cover; a small archaistic bronze vase; and a
miniature bronze vase and a box and cover,
both silver inlaid. The bronze vase: 17cm (6
5/8in) high (8).
£1,000 - 1,500
HK$11,000 - 16,000
CNY8,800 - 13,000

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A MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK
LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
Junyu Shi seal mark, 17th century
The cover exquisitely inlaid in iridescent
mother-of-pearl and gold-leaf with a scholar
reclining on his guqin while reading a book
beside a boy attendant, all beneath a craggy
cliff issuing gnarled pine, the interior of the
cover with a bird on a branch and two seals,
Zhao and Shi, the box with two antique
vessels in the interior, signed on the base
with the seal mark Junyu Shi inlaid in mother-
of-pearl. 9cm (3 1/2in) diam. (2).

£800 - 1,200
HK$8,500 - 13,000
CNY7,100 - 11,000 269

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A RECTANGULAR MOTHER-OF-PEARL
AND HARDSTONE-INLAID LACQUER
BOX AND COVER
19th century
The cover inlaid with a central design of
peonies and a bird in flight, to the rim a
dotted band with bats on the four corners.
14.1cm (5 1/2in) x 9.2cm (3 5/8in) (2).

£600 - 800
HK$6,400 - 8,500
CNY5,300 - 7,100
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