Late Ming dynasty, 16/17th Century
Decorated to the cover with an extensive palace scene with various large storied buildings with balustrades, pathways and gardens dotted with figures, set amongst a variety of trees, a lake and rockwork, two elegantly dressed riders and their entourage arriving at a pavilion entrance in the foreground, the sides of the box and cover decorated with wide ogival panels with birds amidst fruiting branches on a diaper-cell ground with stylized flower heads, the base unusually inlaid with a mother-of-pearl flowering prunus with two birds on the branches and another in flight nearby, all silhouetted against the black ground, the metal hinges and lock plate probably a later addition
4 1/4in x 16 1/8in x 11 3/8in (10.8cm x 40.9cm x 28.9cm)
Late Ming dynasty, 16/17th Century
Decorated to the cover with an extensive palace scene with various large storied buildings with balustrades, pathways and gardens dotted with figures, set amongst a variety of trees, a lake and rockwork, two elegantly dressed riders and their entourage arriving at a pavilion entrance in the foreground, the sides of the box and cover decorated with wide ogival panels with birds amidst fruiting branches on a diaper-cell ground with stylized flower heads, the base unusually inlaid with a mother-of-pearl flowering prunus with two birds on the branches and another in flight nearby, all silhouetted against the black ground, the metal hinges and lock plate probably a later addition
4 1/4in x 16 1/8in x 11 3/8in (10.8cm x 40.9cm x 28.9cm)
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