拍品 203
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AN UNUSUAL SILVER-MOUNTED MOTHER-OF-PEARL RECTANGULAR CASKET AND HINGED COVER
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AN UNUSUAL SILVER-MOUNTED MOTHER-OF-PEARL RECTANGULAR CASKET AND HINGED COVER

THE MOTHER-OF-PEARL 18TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL SILVER-MOUNTED MOTHER-OF-PEARL RECTANGULAR CASKET AND HINGED COVER
The mother-of-pearl 18th Century
The wood lining applied all over with mother-of-pearl finely carved in relief on a rectangular panel on the top with a gentleman seated on a low table, a lady holding a fan, a boy playing with two dogs and an attendant, all on a terrace between two buildings in a riverscape, between floral cartouches and trellis-ground borders carved in lower relief and repeated on the sides, applied with a silver arch handle,
10¼ x 6 x 2¾ in. (26 x 15 x 7 cm.)
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拍品专文

This box was probably used for storing gaming counters; a slightly smaller box of similar shape is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by C. Clunas, Chinese Export Art and Design, no.78, and also by the same author, Chinese Carving, fig.26, p.32.