Lot 506

CHINESE HONGMU AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL SIDE CABINET
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY














Auction: Lots 336 - 597 | 05 September at 10am
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Description
comprising three cupboards of panel construction, the centre with two pairs of doors each with a shaped cartouche inlaid with military figures engaged in combat by a walled building, enclosed by scrolling floral motifs and bands, flanked and divided by further panels and drawers decorated to match with temples, pavilions, butterflies, gourds, and prunus blossoms, above a pierced and intricately carved apron with dragons twisting through foliage and raised on bracket feet
Dimensions
122cm wide, 114cm high, 40.5cm deep
Provenance
Provenance:
Sir James Hall, The Mansionhouse of Dunglass, Cockburnpath, Berwickshire
Sold Dowells Ltd, Edinburgh, 20th-22 November, 1945
UK private collection













