China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644) Comprising a large upper chest with two doors added later, on a lower open-section with two upper drawers, both cabinets similarly decorated with large sections of mother-of-pear on a thick and crackled black lacquer ground with sprays of peonies growing from rockworks H: 152 x W: 86 x D: 36 cm A very similar single cabinet was sold at Christie’s New York, Auspicious Treasures for Scholars and Emperors: Selections from the Robert H. Blumenfield Collection, 22 march 2012, lot 1338, sold $30.000