Dish with figures in a landscape

China

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On this dish, a lady, her maid, and two young attendants walk toward a gentleman standing in a pavilion on a moonlit night. The scene suggests a romantic tryst and may derive from a woodcut illustration of a popular novel of the period.

Dish with figures in a landscape, Black lacquer with inlaid mother-of-pearl, China

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