17th/18th century|The black lacquer top intricately inlaid with a scene of four bearded sages gathering on rafts floating in the ocean, accompanied by two attendants fanning the stove and carrying a zither, five auspicious cranes in the sky, all above a pierced waisted apron over a spreading skirt decorated on each side with cartouches containing phoenixes amidst ruyi-clouds, supported on four cabriole legs, Japanese wood box. 51.5cm (20 1/4in) long x 30.8cm (12 1/8in) wide x 15cm (5 7/8in) high. (3).|十七/十八世紀 黑漆螺鈿仙人過海圖炕桌Compare a related mother-of-pearl inlaid low table, kang, Ming dynasty, 15th-16th century, in the Okayama Art Museum, the apron similarly decorated with two foliate cartouches reserved on a diaper ground but enclosing floral sprays, illustrated in Exhibition of Mother-of-Pearl Inlay in Chinese Lacquer Art: Focused on the Works from 14th to 17th Centuries, Tokyo, 1979, no.81. Another related low table, kang, Ming dynasty, 15th-16th century, in the Tokyo National Museum, supported on similar scrolling feet but connected with stretchers, is illustrated ibid., no.78.