A pair of lac burgauté-inlaid panels


KangxiThe first rectangular panel finely inlaid with a scholar being presented with an official's hat, in a terraced garden flanked with his wife and child, the reverse with a four-line inscription and a bronze vase with flowers; the second with a group of scholar sages observing distant mountains, the reverse with a four-line inscription. Each: 23.5cm (9 1/4in) high (2).