A CINNABAR LACQUER 'SCHOLAR LANDSCAPE' TABLE CABINET QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

of rectangular section supported on low corner feet, the front opening to reveal a partition of four drawers and two compartments closed by small hinged doors, each detailed with a wan-diaper ground and set with a small metal pull, all sides carved in high relief with raised panels depicting scholars and attendants among lush landscapes laden with cragged rocks and trees, on the front two sages walk over a footbridge to meet a third seated at a table, on the sides a sage sits in a lakeside pavilion, reading a book or playing the qin, on the back a scholar walks holding a gnarled staff towards a group of three engaged in a game of weiqi, all framed within borders of leiwen repeated along the indented edges and reserved on a floral-diaper ground, the top decorated with a raised panel enclosing densely foliate lotus and set with a hinged gilt-metal double handle, the interior and base lacquered in black

Collection of Ichiro Hayashibara (1908-1961).

The front panel loosely fits to the cabinet and can detach. It has several age cracks and some relacquering to the corners. The head of the left scholar on the footbridge is restored. Besides few other age cracks around the cartouche panels on the top and the sides, further secured with light touch up or relacquering, the cabinet itself is in quite good condition. There is some repainting to the lacquer on the dividing stretchers on the interior. There is a minute chip to the leaves of one wutong tree of the carved scene on the reverse and two other small nicks to the diaper ground and keyfret border. There are flakes to the black lacquer covering the underside corner feet.
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