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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT
Lot 726
A MOTHER- OF-PE ARL INLAID LACQUER LOW TABLE, MING DYNASTY, 16TH / 17TH CENTUR Y
Estimate: 6,000 - 8,000 USD
A MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID LACQUER LOW TABLE
MING DYNASTY, 16TH / 17TH CENTURY
明十六 / 十七世紀 褐漆嵌螺鈿文會圖炕几
the top panel of shaped and cusped rectangular outline, over a recessed waist pierced with oblong panels and an everted barbed
apron, all raised on four slightly recessed outcurving scroll feet, the top with beaded edge and inlaid in iridescent mother-of-
pearl with a scene of a scholarly gathering within an elegant garden pavilion, enclosed within a diaper border reserving shaped
panels of birds and flowers, the apron reserved with further scenes of scholars on a diaper ground, all on a dark brown lacquer
ground
Width 24⅜ in., 62 cm
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