A CINNABAR LACQUER SMALL CABINET QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

of rectangular form, with a smaller compartment above a larger one, opening to reveal a pair of small drawers, the doors depicting scenes of scholars engaged in 'The Four Accomplishments', all in lakeside settings surrounded by trees and rocky mountains in the background, each door framed with key-fret borders and with gilt-metal lockplates and hinges cast with scrollwork, all above a shallow drawer further depicting scholars and their attendants, the sides and top with diaper pattern, supported by four gilt-metal feet, wood stand (3)

Collection of Vail Kerr Benz (1915-1953), inherited by the family of the present owner.

There are some touch ups to the lacquer around the edges, and several scattered areas of loss, particularly to the corners of the cabinets. The interior of the upper compartment may have been repainted in black, and the edge of the left door is left unpainted exposing the wood underneath. One of the lock receptacles on the central stile of the upper compartment is missing, and half of one lockplate on the side has been replaced.
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