Description The top of the cover finely carved with a scholar and a boy accompanied by a servant amidst a rocky shore landscape, all reserved on a finely carved brocade ground. The sides decorated with leafy branches bearing peaches and various blossoms. The base lacquered red and the interior black with an old collectors number 442 in red.
Dimensions Height 12.7 cm; diameter 16 cm
Medium a scholar with boys, accompanied by a servant on a jetty on the lake shore
Provenance Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia, acquired in the 1950s at Lempertz, and thence by descent
Notes VAT: Margin scheme