Lot 5
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LAC BURGAUTÉ FOUR-TIERED BOX AND COVER
17TH CENTURY
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 557
Auction: 15 May 2019 at 17:00 BST
Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000
Description
finely inlaid in mother-of-pearl, the cover decorated with a general in a moon-lit mountainous landscape, surrounded by soldiers holding weapons, the sides of the cover and the boxes decorated with lobed cartouches enclosing scenes of figures engaged in various leisurely pursuits
Dimensions
18.3cm high
Footnote
Note:
For a comparable lac burgauté box from the 17th/18th century, see Bonhams' sale in their London rooms on 08.11.2004, lot 70.