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An Indo-Portugese ivory inlaid wood rectangular box
on four ball feet, decorated to the top with equestrian figures and attendants in European costumes, two on foot holding spears and shields above a running hare, below birds among flowering trees, within a border of stylised double-drago ovals interspersed with bird roundels, the sides decorated with further hunters with guns and tigers attacking stags, fitted with a sliding drawer, key -- 13.in (34.3cm) ling, 17th/18th Century, (small crack and small chip).
See Colour Plate 17.
on four ball feet, decorated to the top with equestrian figures and attendants in European costumes, two on foot holding spears and shields above a running hare, below birds among flowering trees, within a border of stylised double-drago ovals interspersed with bird roundels, the sides decorated with further hunters with guns and tigers attacking stags, fitted with a sliding drawer, key -- 13.in (34.3cm) ling, 17th/18th Century, (small crack and small chip).
See Colour Plate 17.