Lot 700
700
A Lacquered-wood Sewing Box Inlaid with Mother-of-Pearl
A Lacquered-wood Sewing Box Inlaid with Mother-of-Pearl

JOSEON DYNASTY (LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

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A Lacquered-wood Sewing Box Inlaid with Mother-of-Pearl
Joseon dynasty (late 19th-early 20th century)
Round, with flat base, designed in the well with a large circular panel of four swimming and one leaping carp in a pond below rocks and boughs of a cherry tree, some of the fruits falling into the water and the branches with budding and flowering blossoms, the exterior of the box inlaid in mother-of-pearl with further cherry boughs, grapes, chrysanthemums, bamboo, two insects and pinks, all on a black-lacquer ground
12 7/8in. (32.8cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

For a sewing box with similar interior roundel, see Ewha Womans University Museum, Catalogue 18: Special Exhibition of Lacquered Wood with Inlaid Mother-of-pearl and Painted Ox-horn Sheet Handicrafts (Seoul: Ewha Womans University Museum, 1989), pls. 41-42.
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