A CHINESE GILT-LACQUERED WOOD RECTANGULAR PANEL DEPICTING SERICULTURE

1ST HALF 18TH CENTURY

Richly decorated in gold and red lacquer with women engaged in silk production in a farmhouse by a river, their faces and hands picked out in silver lacquer, the rocky landscape with pine, bamboo, chrysanthemum, willow and other trees, all against a black ground and contained within a repeating foliate border, 51cm x 77cm.