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           A FINE SMALL INLAID BLACK LACQUER   A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK   A RARE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL
           CABINET                           LACQUER DOUBLE-SIDED TABLE        ‘BUDDHIST LIONS’ BASIN
           Possibly Ryukyu Islands, 18th/19th century                          17th century
           Of rectangular form raised on a shaped base,   SCREEN               The well decorated with three playful
                                             18th century
           the exterior attractively inlaid with mother-  The front attractively inlaid in mother-of-pearl,   colourful Buddhist lions amongst flame motifs
           of-pearl, soapstone, bone and wood, the   ivory or bone, iridescent shell, red lacquer   encircling a central rosette, the cavetto and
           front and sides with flowering trees including   and hardstones with an archaistic tripod bowl   everted rim each with a meander of lotus
           camellia and peach and two birds, the back   and cover, vase of flowering peony, weiqi   blooms borne on undulating foliate stems, the
           with five ribboned Precious Objects, the   board with containers for playing pieces, and   exterior plain. 39.7cm (15 5/8in) diam.
           interior two central drawers between two   a small red lacquer incense box, the reverse
           long drawers, each decorated with ribboned   shell-inlaid with a twelve-character poem   £5,000 - 8,000
           Precious Objects, the door interiors with   and square seal, mounted on a zitan stand    CNY45,000 - 72,000
           finger citron and a bat, all reserved on a   24.6cm (9 3/4in) high.
           lustrous dark brown lacquer ground.                                 Please note this Lot is to be sold at
           21.5cm (8 1/4in) wide x 18cm (7in) high.  £2,000 - 3,000            No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

           £1,000 - 1,500                    CNY18,000 - 27,000                十七世紀 銅胎掐絲琺瑯瑞獅戲球紋折沿盆
           CNY9,100 - 14,000                 Please note this Lot is to be sold at
                                                                               enamel dish, late Ming dynasty, and a
           Please note this Lot is to be sold at   No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價         See closely related decoration on a cloisonné

           No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價               十八世紀 黑漆嵌寶博古圖硯屏                    similarly shaped and decorated cloisonné
                                                                               enamel basin, early Qing dynasty, in the
           或琉球,十八/十九世紀 黑漆嵌寶博古花鳥              Published, Illustrated and Exhibited:   Qing Court Collection, illustrated in the
           紋小箱                               Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition,   Compendium of Collections in the Palace
                                             London, 2001, no.124.             Museum: Enamels, Beijing, 2011, vol.1,
           Published, Illustrated and Exhibited:                               no.168 and vol.2, no.94; and also a related
           Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition,                              cloisonné enamel basin decorated with three
           London, 2005, no.116.             展覽著錄:Roger Keverne Ltd.,          Buddhist lions, 16th century, illustrated by
                                             《冬季展覽》,倫敦,2001年,編號124
                                                                               H.Brinker and A.Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné:
           展覽著錄:Roger Keverne Ltd.,《夏季展      The inscription reads:            The Pierre Uldry Collection, London, 1989,
           覽》,倫敦,2005年,編號116                 未調金鼎內,先映玉階前 晴峰 江松濤制               no.102.

           See a related box with similar decoration   Which may be translated as:
           illustrated in Oriental Lacquer Arts, Tokyo,   Inside the still silent bronze vessel, is reflected
           1977, no.356.                     before the jade steps. Qingfeng, made by
                                             Jiang Songtao.

                                             Compare with a related inlaid table screen
                                             with a poem on the reverse, Qing dynasty,
                                             in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in
                                             The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
                                             Palace Museum: Furniture of the Ming and
                                             Qing Dynasties (II), Hong Kong, 2002, p.201,
                                             no.174.
                                                  For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
           116  |  BONHAMS                        please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.
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