A Chinese mother of pearl-inlaid four-tier lacquer box 黑漆嵌螺钿四层盒 17th/18th century or earlier ??????????

The cover depicting a mounted scholar with an attendant holding an umbrella within a river landscape with pavilions, the sides of the four tiers decorated with reserves of peony, prunus, orchid, and lotus, all against a diaper ground; the lacquer of a chocolate-brown tone, the inlaid shell of purple and green tones, underside with inlaid mark "Fu".

H: 7in., L: 4 1/4 in., W: 4 1/4 in.

NOTE:

For an earlier treatment of a box with figural scene on the cover, and sides decorated with reserves against diaper ground, see the example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, dated to the 14th-early 15th century, in Denise Patry Leidy, "Mother-of Pearl, A Tradition in Asian Lacquer", New York, 1996, p. 54, no.5

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Property from a private collection, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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A Chinese mother of pearl-inlaid four-tier lacquer box 黑漆嵌螺钿四层盒 17th/18th century or earlier ??????????

H: 7in., L: 4 1/4 in., W: 4 1/4 in.

NOTE:

PROVENANCE:

Property from a private collection, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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A Chinese mother of pearl-inlaid four-tier lacquer box 黑漆嵌螺钿四层盒 17th/18th century or earlier ??????????

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A Chinese mother of pearl-inlaid four-tier lacquer box 黑漆嵌螺钿四层盒 17th/18th century or earlier ??????????