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A RARE LAC-BUGAUTE RECTANGULAR WRITING BOX AND COVER SET
17TH CENTURY
Comprising two boxes, and outer box and an inner box, the larger cover decorated with inlay depicting figures arriving by horseback to a mansio with figures seated in an audience hall and a musician in an ajacent room, set in a riverscape with bridges and pavillions in the distance, the smaller cover with figures in a garden beside trees and pavilions, the sides decorated with diaper pattern borders, the bases wit birds perched on flowering branches, the inner box with recessed comparments to fit a carved rectangular duan inkstone and a bronze waterdropper cast as a monkey before a mountain (minor repair to several corners, minor losses)--the largest box 16 1/2in. (42cm.) long
17TH CENTURY
Comprising two boxes, and outer box and an inner box, the larger cover decorated with inlay depicting figures arriving by horseback to a mansio with figures seated in an audience hall and a musician in an ajacent room, set in a riverscape with bridges and pavillions in the distance, the smaller cover with figures in a garden beside trees and pavilions, the sides decorated with diaper pattern borders, the bases wit birds perched on flowering branches, the inner box with recessed comparments to fit a carved rectangular duan inkstone and a bronze waterdropper cast as a monkey before a mountain (minor repair to several corners, minor losses)--the largest box 16 1/2in. (42cm.) long