拍品 49
49
A RARE KOREAN MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID LACQUER TABLE of low rectangular shape with pierced waisted sides and scrolling apron, the top inlaid with a shaped cartouche containing a bird descending between two lotus, with peony sprays in the spandrels, the sides with peony meander (age cracks),16th/17th Century

细节
A RARE KOREAN MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID LACQUER TABLE of low rectangular shape with pierced waisted sides and scrolling apron, the top inlaid with a shaped cartouche containing a bird descending between two lotus, with peony sprays in the spandrels, the sides with peony meander (age cracks),16th/17th Century
47cm. long, Japanese fitted wooden box

拍品专文

The floral design reflect a departure from the orderly designs employed in the inlaid lacquerwares of the Koryo period in preference for the natural, more spontaneous composition of the Choson period. For a similar Choson Dynasty writing table inlaid in mother-of-pearl with comparable peony and foliage motifs along the legs and long side panels cf. the Kim Ryong-do Collection of Korean Art, Catalogue, p.228, fig.225