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A RYUKYUAN MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER
RECTANGULAR SIDE TABLE
18th/19th century
The top layered in graduated levels of mother-of-pearl to form a dense
high-relief scene of a lakeside storied building and fenced garden
terrace with seated figures below pine, all above a short waist with cell
PROPERTY FROM THE ROBERT AND MEE-DIN MOORE pattern and cloud piercings and a shaped apron with figural terrace
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scenes, slender incurving legs, all standing on four stretchers centered
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17 ¾ x 18 ½ x 14in (45 x 47 x 35.5cm)
A RYUKYUAN MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER
SHAPED-SQUARE TRAY
18th/19th century $2,000 - 3,000
Decorated with five children watching a cockfight, the border with
beribboned objects, the plain underside set with four short feet, a two- 十八/十九世紀 琉球黑漆戧金人物樓閣圖邊桌
character seal mark to the base.
14 1/2in (36.8cm) across For a table of foliated oval shape, see Ryukyuan Lacquerware from
the Urasoe Art Museum, Cultural Treasures of the Ryukyu Kingdom,
$2,500 - 3,500 Urasoe Art Museum, 1995, p. 144, no. 114.

Another table inlaid with mother-of-pearl on a transparent-lacquered
十八/十九世紀 琉球黑漆嵌螺鈿鬥雞圖盤
wood is illustrated by Hirokazu Arakawa and Yoshinobu Tokugawa,
Ryukyu Urishi Kogyo (Art of Ryukyuan Lacquer), Tokyo, 1977, no. 89.
For an earlier red lacquered inlaid table from the Danno Horin-ji, Kyoto,
dated to 1611 or earlier, see Ryukyu Shikki (Ryukyu Lacquer), a joint
exhibition by the Tokugawa Museum and the Nezu Institute of Fine
Arts, Tokyo, 1978, mo. 33.
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