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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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