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A RYUKYUAN MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER See Ryukyuan Lacquerware from the Urasoe Art Museum, Cultural
RECTANGULAR LOW TABLE, KANG Treasures of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Urasoe Art Museum, 1995, p.
17/18th century 83, no. 58, for a very similar low table also inlaid with an equestrian
Decorated with an equestrian and walking attendants crossing a landscape scene and with near identical leg and feet treatment. It is
bridge towards a pavilion with further figures, all set amidst tree peony, dated seventeenth-eighteenth century.
pine, and rockwork to the flat top with simple beaded edge above cell
pattern and a short pierced waist, the shaped apron with bird and fruit For another very similar table attributed to sixteenth century Chinese
panels on a different cell ground, with short cabriole legs and ‘pearl’ production, see Christie’s, London, 16 November 1998, lot 17, where
terminals. it is compared to another table from a private Japanese collection
14in (35.3cm) across, box exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum, Chinese Mother-of-Pearl-
Decorated Lacquer, Tokyo, 1980, p. 114, no. 72-1.
$2,500 - 3,500
十七/十八世紀 琉球黑漆嵌螺鈿山水人物炕桌
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