A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER CABINET QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD | 清康熙 黑漆嵌螺鈿人物故事圖方角櫃

A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER CABINET

QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

清康熙 黑漆嵌螺鈿人物故事圖方角櫃

of rectangular form, fitted with two hinged doors above a deep apron, opening to reveal twenty drawers of various sizes, embellished to the front with mother-of-pearl depicting an animated scene of mounted huntsmen and women engaged in combat set within a landscape with gnarled branches issuing clusters of leaves emerging from rocks, all against a black lacquered ground, the hinges and lockplates detailed with four-clawed dragons and carp interspersed with ruyi pendants, together with a European 19th Century cabriole legged lacquered wood stand

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90.5 by 53.5 by 83.5 cm, 35⅝ by 21 by 32⅞ in.