Description
each of rectangular section and supported on four short feet, the everted rim decorated with shou characters at the top and key-fret scroll on the edge, the exterior walls carved with four panels each depicting an elderly scholar and attendants within a landscape, framed by meandering peony scrolls, the interior and the base lacquered black, with wood stands (2)
Dimensions
21.8cm long
Footnote
Provenance:
Private London Collection.
Note:
For comparable jardinières, see Kwan: Chinese Lacquer, no. 106, p. 296-7 and Wu: Masterpieces of Chinese Carved Lacquerware in the National Palace Museum, no. 50.