17TH-18TH CENTURY

The group comprises: two square trays with canted corners, the first decorated to the centre with a horse, scholars and ladies gathered in a garden by a pavilion, standing beneath a tree that overhangs a river, the cavetto embellished with shaped landscape cartouches; the second tray decorated with a gathering of two ladies, a scholar and his attendant resting beneath a wutong tree and picked out in gold tones, the cavetto inlaid with an intricate design of flowers on a dense leafy scrolling ground; and a circular tray with a scholar in a pavilion with his servants in attendance, addressing two ladies in a fenced garden setting.
The largest: 4⅞ in. (12.4 cm.) wide

Collection of the late Soame Jenyns (1904-1976), then by descent within the family.

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