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A SQUARE MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID LACQUER TRAY
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
The square tray inlaid with iridescent mother-of-pearl with a tranquil scene of a scholar listening to music performed by a boy playing the flute on a riverside terrace and another gentleman seated on the opposite bank, playing the qin, surrounded on the cavetto by four shaped cartouches enclosing lotus scrolls, against a foliate diaper ground, the base and exterior with dark brown lacquer
6 1/4 in. (16 cm.) square, Japanese wood box
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
The square tray inlaid with iridescent mother-of-pearl with a tranquil scene of a scholar listening to music performed by a boy playing the flute on a riverside terrace and another gentleman seated on the opposite bank, playing the qin, surrounded on the cavetto by four shaped cartouches enclosing lotus scrolls, against a foliate diaper ground, the base and exterior with dark brown lacquer
6 1/4 in. (16 cm.) square, Japanese wood box