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PROPERTY FROM AN OLD EUROPEAN FAMILY COLLECTION
A RARE PAIR OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID
LACQUER CABINETS
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
of upright rectangular section, each superbly decorated in
mother of pearl inlays on a black lacquer ground, one cabinet
with court ladies and children in a lush landscape around a
lotus pound, the other with a gathering of immortals under
the moon presenting auspicious offerings to a qilin
(4)
196 x 105.5 x 41.2 cm, 77⅛ by 41½ by 16¼ in.

PROVENANCE
Collection N.H. Conte G. C. di B., Lazio, Italy,
L’Antonina - Galleria d’Arte, Roma, 10th-24th Decembre 1962,
lot 493.
Paire de cabinets en laque avec incrustation de nacre, dynastie
Qing, époque Kangxi
45 000-60 000€

清康熙 黑漆嵌螺鈿方角櫃
來源 :
Conte G. C. di B收藏，拉齊奧，義大利
L’Antonina - Galleria d’Arte，羅馬，1962年12月10日至24
日，編號493

It is very rare to find surviving large scale mother-of-pearl
inlaid Chinese furniture of the late Ming and early Qing
dynasty. Compare two 16th century two-door cabinets, one
in the Tokyo National Museum and the other in the Okura
Cultural Foundation in Tokyo, both illustrated in Mother-of-
Pearl Inlay in Chinese Lacquer Art , Tokyo National Museum,
1981, cat. nos. 77 and 78. Also see a four-poster lacquer bed
in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, (part 1) vol. 53,
Hong Kong, 2002, no. 3.
Compare also another mother-of-pearl inlaid cabinet, sold in
our New York rooms, 18th September 2007, Lot 56.

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