A MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK LACQUER RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER Late Ming dynasty, 16/17th CenturyPROPERTY FROM THE MARY AND CHENEY COWLES COLLECTIONA MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK LACQUER RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVERLate Ming dynasty, 16/17th Century Decorated to the cover with an extensive palace scene with various large storied buildings with balustrades, pathways and gardens dotted with figures, set amongst a variety of trees, a lake and rockwork, two elegantly dressed riders and their entourage arriving at a pavilion entrance in the foreground, the sides of the box and cover decorated with wide ogival panels with birds amidst fruiting branches on a diaper-cell ground with stylized flower heads, the base unusually inlaid with a mother-of-pearl flowering prunus with two birds on the branches and another in flight nearby, all silhouetted against the black ground, the metal hinges and lock plate probably a later addition 4 1/4in x 16 1/8in x 11 3/8in (10.8cm x 40.9cm x 28.9cm)明晚期 十六/十七世紀 黑漆螺鈿樓閣山水圖長方蓋盒Provenance: Donald Wineman, New York, 1986來源：紐約Donald Wineman舊藏，1986年See the catalogue, East Asian Lacquer, Bukchon Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea, 2008, pp. 98-109, no's 1-45 to 1-53 for a range of 14th to 17th century mother-of-pearl-inlaid lacquers with similar depictions. No. 1-53, an ink stone box, has similar side borders and a large prunus spray inlaid to the underside.