A SMALL HEXAGONAL LAC-BURGAUTE BOX AND COVER MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY of hexagonal form, the raised top inlaid with mother-of-pearl on black lacquer ground with a scene of a scholar seated at a table with a wine cup, a bowl of fruit, and a zhadou, drinking wine served by an attendant, all in a rocky garden landscape with a pine tree and various flowers, the concave canted sides decorated with various floret-diaper grounds, the interior of the box centred on a sprig of peonies, the base similarly decorated on the sloping sides with floret diapers, the underside centred with a square seal reading Mushiren, stand 8.5 cm., 3 3/8 in.
A SMALL HEXAGONAL LAC-BURGAUTE BOX AND COVER MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY of hexagonal form, the raised top inlaid with mother-of-pearl on black lacquer ground with a scene of a scholar seated at a table with a wine cup, a bowl of fruit, and a zhadou, drinking wine served by an attendant, all in a rocky garden landscape with a pine tree and various flowers, the concave canted sides decorated with various floret-diaper grounds, the interior of the box centred on a sprig of peonies, the base similarly decorated on the sloping sides with floret diapers, the underside centred with a square seal reading Mushiren, stand 8.5 cm., 3 3/8 in.
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