A PAIR OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK LACQUER RECTANGULAR TABLE SCREENS

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A PAIR OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK LACQUER RECTANGULAR TABLE SCREENS
17TH/18TH CENTURY

Each finely inlaid in mother-of-pearl of iridescent pink, lavender and green tone, crushed shell and gold foil with figures in landscape scenes framed within a narrow border of overlapping blossoms, the reverse inlaid with a four-line inscription, minor age cracks (chips to extremity)
9 x 4 7/8 in. (22.8 x 12.5 cm.), boxes (2)

Provenance

Desmond Gure, no. 93
Arthur M. Sackler, sold in our New York Rooms, 1 December 1994, lot 16.

Lot Essay

For another pair of similarly decorated table screens included in the exhibition 2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, cf. Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong, Catalogue, no. 94.

This style of decoration is also found on a Kangxi pewter tea-pot decorated with laque burgaute, illustrated by Jenyns and Watson, Chinese Art, no. 49.

(US$7,000-9,000)

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