CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIÈME-XIXÈME SIÈCLE

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PETITE TABLE EN LAQUE ROUGE INCRUSTÉE DE NACRE, ANJI
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIÈME-XIXÈME SIÈCLE
Le plateau rectangulaire et les quatre pieds cylindriques sur lesquels il repose sont entièrement recouverts de laque rouge ornée de motifs géométriques et fleurs stylisées en nacre incrustrée. Le plateau est bordé de pêches alternées avec des insectes. Les pieds sont terminés par un embout en émaux cloisonnés à motifs de lotus et rinceaux feuillagés sur fond turquoise.
Hauteur : 32,8 cm. (12 7/8 in.) ; Longueur : 90 cm. (35 3/8 in.) ; Profondeur : 43,5 cm. (17 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Previously from an English private collection.

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Further details

A SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID RED LACQUER TABLE, ANJI
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

A pair of similarly decorated mother-of-pearl-inlaid red and green lacquer cabinets are displayed in the Chu Xiu Gong 'Hall of Gathered Elegance' in the Forbidden City, Beijing. See a closely related red lacquer and mother of pearl-inlaid Kang table, decorated with repeated shou characters, also in the collection of the Palace museum of Beijing, which could be part of the same set as our present table.

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