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A CINNABAR LACQUER SMALL CABINET QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
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 on gilt-metal feet (6)