A TIANQI LACQUER LOW TABLE
QING DYNASTY, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The shaped top decorated in qiangjin and tianqi techniques with two birds perched among the branches of a blossoming peony tree issuing from rockwork, all on a diaper-ground within a lotus scroll border, the shaped apron and six inward-curving ruyi-form legs further decorated with a lotus scroll beneath a pierced waist
17 3/4 in. (45 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box
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Compare with a very similar low table of the same form exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum exhibition Ch'iang, Chinkin and Zonsei Lacquerware, 1974, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 66 (dated Ming).