Property from an old European family collectionA rare pair of mother-of-pearl inlaid lacquer cabinetsQing dynasty, Kangxi periodof upright rectangular section, each superbly decorated in mother of pearl inlays on a black lacquer ground, one cabinet with court ladies and children in a lush landscape around a lotus pound, the other with a gathering of immortals under the moon presenting auspicious offerings to a qilin(2)196 x 105.5 x 41.2 cm, 77⅛ by 41½ by 16¼ in.__________________________________________________________________________Collection particulière européenneRare paire de cabinets en laque avec incrustation de nacre, dynastie Qing, époque Kangxi__________________________________________________________________________歐洲私人收藏清康熙 黑漆嵌螺鈿方角櫃来源: Collection N.H. Conte G. C. di B., Lazio, Italy,L'Antonina - Galleria d'Arte, Roma, 10th-24th Decembre 1962, lot 493.__________________________________________________________________________N.H. Conte G. C. di B收藏，拉齊奧，義大利L'Antonina - Galleria d'Arte，羅馬，1962年12月10日至24日，編號493专文: It is very rare to find surviving large scale mother-of-pearl inlaid Chinese furniture of the late Ming and early Qing dynasty. Compare two 16th century two-door cabinets, one in the Tokyo National Museum and the other in the Okura Cultural Foundation in Tokyo, both illustrated in Mother-of-Pearl Inlay in Chinese Lacquer Art , Tokyo National Museum, 1981, cat. nos. 77 and 78. Also see a four-poster lacquer bed in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, (part 1) vol. 53, Hong Kong, 2002, no. 3. Compare also another mother-of-pearl inlaid cabinet, sold in our New York rooms, 18th September 2007, Lot 56.