A Pair of Mother-of-Pearl and Soft stone Inlaid Lacquer Cabinets 20th Century

each of black lacquer with well-balanced inlay work of mother-of-pearl and various soft stones, the two doors depicting a scene of ladies at various leisurely pursuits within a garden pavilion, framed by a border of repeated cartouches enclosing qilong and against a floret-diaper ground, the sides each with a circular and square panel framing blooming branches with birds and butterflies, rising from four squared feet with a straight apron (2)

The top of one chair with flaking lacquer, both with all over craquelure, and both with numerous chips to edges.
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Compare a larger black lacquered cabinet also inlaid with soft stone and mother-of-pearl with similar composition on the doors and also with the qilong motif along the border, illustrated in Lee Yu-kuan, Oriental Lacquer Art, Tokyo, 1972, pl. 264.