MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK LACQUER SQUARE WOODEN STAND
QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
£1,063
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 14 May 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
清 黑漆嵌螺鈿花卉紋方座
the flattened top is delicately inlaid with mother-of-pearl and gold to the central medallion with floral sprays visited by a dragonfly, within a further inlaid border, all above a narrow waist, raised on floral-decorated coin-ground aprons and inward-curving legs, the whole is raised on base stretchers of conforming shape, all on a plain lacquered ground
Dimensions
12.1cm x 12.1cm x 5.2cm
Footnote
Provenance: Collection of Dr John A Packer, Edinburgh