Description
A Ryûkyû lacquer and inlaid mother-of-pearl stand. 18th/19th century On four cabriole legs rising from a lobed flat socle, with a curved shoulder and a lobed table top, all covered by a brownish lacquer. The table top displaying figures on a terrace in a landscape, on the shoulder cartouches filled with figures and reserved from a pattern of interlocking circles, the base with two deer underneath a willow. Crack through the table top. Height 45.5 cm; at the base 29 x 29 cm Literature Compare similar tables and decorations, illustrated in: Kanzo Ryûkyû shitsugei / Ryukuan Lacquerware from the Urasoe Art Museum Collection, Urasoe 1995, p. 137, fig. 108, p. 142, fig. 112, p. 192, fig. 166 and p. 200, fig. 174
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A Ryûkyû lacquer and inlaid mother-of-pearl stand. 18th/19th century On four cabriole legs rising from a lobed flat socle, with a curved shoulder and a lobed table top, all covered by a brownish lacquer. The table top displaying figures on a terrace in a landscape, on the shoulder cartouches filled with figures and reserved from a pattern of interlocking circles, the base with two deer underneath a willow. Crack through the table top. Height 45.5 cm; at the base 29 x 29 cm Literature Compare similar tables and decorations, illustrated in: Kanzo Ryûkyû shitsugei / Ryukuan Lacquerware from the Urasoe Art Museum Collection, Urasoe 1995, p. 137, fig. 108, p. 142, fig. 112, p. 192, fig. 166 and p. 200, fig. 174
