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A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER CABINETQING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD清康熙 黑漆嵌螺鈿人物故事圖方角櫃of rectangular form, fitted with two hinged doors above a deep apron, opening to reveal twenty drawers of various sizes, embellished to the front with mother-of-pearl depicting an animated scene of mounted huntsmen and women engaged in combat set within a landscape with gnarled branches issuing clusters of leaves emerging from rocks, all against a black lacquered ground, the hinges and lockplates detailed with four-clawed dragons and carp interspersed with ruyi pendants, together with a European 19th Century cabriole legged lacquered wood stand(2)90.5 by 53.5 by 83.5 cm, 35? by 21 by 32? in. Compare a closely related cabinet in the Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, illustrated in Madeleine Jarry, Chinoiserie: Chinese Influence on European Decorative Art 17th and 18th Centuries, London, 1981, p. 155, Ill. 164; and another, possibly purchased Elizabeth Percy, Dutchess of Somerset (1667-1722) and now in the private collection of Lord Egremont, currently on view in the Grand Staircase at Petworth House, West Sussex.