A pair of lacauer panels depicting court scenes with inlays

Description:

China, 19th century
106 x 70 cm R.
Black lacquer on wood, relief appliqués, fine gold painting. This pair of wall panels depicts an optically and narratively associating garden landscape with a gold-painted background. Set against a deep black lacquer ground, highly detailed scenes unfold, featuring filigree wooden pagodas alongside various figures, including playing children, scholars examining a scroll, and courtiers in traditional robes, all artistically carved from bone, jade, carnelian, and polychrome soapstone. Traditional wooden frame with bronze hangers.
From an old German private collection, collected since the 1970s - Minor chipped