AN UNUSUAL MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID SQUARE-CORNER DISPLAY CABINET
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AN UNUSUAL MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID SQUARE-CORNER DISPLAY CABINET

17TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID SQUARE-CORNER DISPLAY CABINET
17TH CENTURY
The top shelf framed by shaped aprons in the front and with horizontal stretchers on the sides supported by caltrop-shaped struts enclosing an inlaid scene of a scholarly procession by a lush waterscape above a blossoming prunus tree, above two panel doors fitted flush around the removable center stile and inlaid in the form of unfurled scrolls depicting landscape scenes, the sides of the cabinet inlaid with birds amidst leafy blossoming branches, the feet fitted with brass shoes
61½ in. (156.2 cm.) high, 32¾ in. (83.2 cm.) wide, 19 5/16 in. (49.2 cm.) deep
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 18 September 2007, lot 56.

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