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Local artists reproduced the glossy look of Chinese lacquerware by adding layers of varnish to painted surfaces. A seventeenth-century lacquer mirror and its cover present scenes set inside barbed multifoils. One side of the mirror’s cover portrays two finely dressed gentlemen playing a game of chess attended by several onlookers; a servant kneels to blow on a fire in front of them. Pendants set above and below the scene within the central multifoil contain individual portraits. The central images are surrounded by a decorative ground pattern of humans and animals linked in combat, their bodies arranged to follow the curves of the flowering vines with which they are intertwined.\n","remarks":"ASIA3_13_CLA  Day 1 Cataloguing"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"With H. K. Monif, New York; at an unknown date, acquired by Gilbert S. 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