A MAGNIFICENT AND EXTREMELY RARE BLACK LACQUER MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID THREE-TIERED SQUARE BOX AND COVER YUAN DYNASTY of three-tiered square section with cusped corners and straight sides, supported on a slightly recessed splayed foot, skilfully inlaid overall in slivers of mother-of-pearl on a black lacquer ground, the raised top with a scholar arriving at a mansion with two pavilions with several attendants in the courtyard, all surrounded by cartouches enclosing figural scenes against a rural landscape on the curved sloping sides, the straight exterior walls with further similar cartouches, all reserved on a ground of interlocking circles, the sloped sides and straight foot detailed with further cartouches enclosing scenes of plants and animals respectively, all above a band of dots bordering the foot, the interior and base lacquered brownish-black save for the cinnabar top of the middle tray 23.5 by 20.5 by 20.5 cm., 9 1/4 by 8 1/8 by 8 1/8 in.
A MAGNIFICENT AND EXTREMELY RARE BLACK LACQUER MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID THREE-TIERED SQUARE BOX AND COVER YUAN DYNASTY of three-tiered square section with cusped corners and straight sides, supported on a slightly recessed splayed foot, skilfully inlaid overall in slivers of mother-of-pearl on a black lacquer ground, the raised top with a scholar arriving at a mansion with two pavilions with several attendants in the courtyard, all surrounded by cartouches enclosing figural scenes against a rural landscape on the curved sloping sides, the straight exterior walls with further similar cartouches, all reserved on a ground of interlocking circles, the sloped sides and straight foot detailed with further cartouches enclosing scenes of plants and animals respectively, all above a band of dots bordering the foot, the interior and base lacquered brownish-black save for the cinnabar top of the middle tray 23.5 by 20.5 by 20.5 cm., 9 1/4 by 8 1/8 by 8 1/8 in.
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