A Cantonese barrel shaped garden seat with pierced cash roundels and moulded bands of studs, painted and gilt with a shaped panel depicting an official on horseback flanked by warriors and attendants carrying shields and banners, the reverse with dignitaries and ladies on a terrace watching figures in punts on a lotus pond, all on a ground of bats and birds amongst dense flowers and foliage -- 18¼in. (46cm.) high.