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19TH CENTURY
Details
A large cinnabar lacquer box and cover
19th century
Of circular section, the domed cover intricately carved with a central panel depicting four scholars and their attendents within a rocky landscape with overhanging pine trees and distant mountains, against various diaper grounds and encircled by a key-fret border, the sides with four quatre-foil cartouches, each enclosing different flower sprays against a diamond-diaper ground, all surrounded by a foliate scroll, the box similarly decorated, the cover broken and reglued, the inside of the cover repainted
30 cm. wide
19th century
Of circular section, the domed cover intricately carved with a central panel depicting four scholars and their attendents within a rocky landscape with overhanging pine trees and distant mountains, against various diaper grounds and encircled by a key-fret border, the sides with four quatre-foil cartouches, each enclosing different flower sprays against a diamond-diaper ground, all surrounded by a foliate scroll, the box similarly decorated, the cover broken and reglued, the inside of the cover repainted
30 cm. wide
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