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A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID ‘SEVEN SAGES’ TABLE STAND
15th century
The rectangular top exquisitely inlaid with small and thin pieces of
iridescent mother-of-pearl on black lacquer forming a scene of
seven sages and five attendants gathering in a bamboo grove, a sage
followed with an attendant carrying a qin walking towards to three
sages playing weiqi in the centre, and two sages viewing a painting in
front of a pavilion with pillars finely incised with boys holding lotus, all
within a beaded frame and boarded with coin-diaper and cartouches
of scrolling flowers, the high waist inlaid with cartouches of playing lions
and deer reserved on multiple diapers on each side, above aprons
decorated with cartouches inlaid with birds resting on branches of
prunus blossom and crabapple blossom on a hexagon-diaper ground
extending to four cabriole legs curved into a ruyi head, all lacquered in
black and crackled finely in a network of ice-crackles, box.
49.5cm (19 1/4in) wide x 22cm (8 3/4in) deep x 17cm (6 3/4in) high. (2).
HKD500,000 - 600,000
US$64,000 - 77,000
十五世紀 黑漆嵌螺鈿竹林七賢炕桌
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