Lot 1388. An unusual mother-of-pearl-inlaid square-corner display cabinet, 17th century; 61½ in. (156.2 cm.) high, 32¾ in. (83.2 cm.) wide, 19 5/16 in. (49.2 cm.) deep. Estimate USD 60,000 - USD 80,000. Price realised USD 80,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011

The top shelf framed by shaped aprons in the front and with horizontal stretchers on the sides supported by caltrop-shaped struts enclosing an inlaid scene of a scholarly procession by a lush waterscape above a blossoming prunus tree, above two panel doors fitted flush around the removable center stile and inlaid in the form of unfurled scrolls depicting landscape scenes, the sides of the cabinet inlaid with birds amidst leafy blossoming branches, the feet fitted with brass shoes.