Long Carved Panel with Mother of Pearl A6 The stunning off white background

The stunning off white background of this vase lamp is decorated with spreading twigs laden with red and yellow peach blossoms

reds and pale blues

harks back to earlier door and window panels in Chinese homes and is made in the same way - each individual piece of wood fitting into the next with mortise and tenon joints

it dates from the mid 19th century and still has the original finish

Long Carved Panel with Mother of Pearl A6 The stunning off white backgroundJiangsu, circa 1880 This long carved panel was originally the front part of a Chinese marriage bed, produced in the city of Suzhou in China's eastern Jiangsu province. It is divided into three sections, with each one incorporating a lozenge shaped carving showing various figures at court. These are varnished in red, black and gold, with a mother of pearl fragment inlay. The carvings are set within a geometric pattern made with individual pieces of