Important South African & International Art, Furniture, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 17 March 2014
Cape, Colonial, Oriental & Continental Silver, Furniture & Decorative Arts
About this Item
Kyoto, Japan
A Japanese Nagasaki export lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlaid five-piece suite, Zohiko, late Meiji Period (1868-1912)
inlaid with variously-coloured mother-of-pearl of figures at various pursuits against a black ground, comprising: a scholar's table, 22cm high; a rectangular table, 41cm high, 82cm long, 46cm wide; a pair of chairs; and a three-fold screen, 96cm high, 135cm wide open
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