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The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF)
12th–21st March 2010
20. A Bone-Inlaid Black Lacquer Chest
18th Century
The chest is of rectangular shape standing on an integral base. It is inlaid in bone and highlighted in gilt and ink on the front with a group of seven boys playing in a courtyard garden below a phoenix in flight and watched by a scholar and his wife; the sides and top are similarly decorated with boys and figures.
