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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 11042612, member: 360&quot;]In case you&#039;re wondering where I&#039;ve been for the past several weeks...I&#039;ve not been around mostly because I haven&#039;t bought anything worth sharing for like...the better part of two or three months!! </p><p><br /></p><p>Well - that ends today!!...or more precisely...yesterday! </p><p><br /></p><p>Because that&#039;s when I picked this up at my local auction house. It had an enormous estimate on it, but when the price dropped...and dropped...and dropped!...and still nobody bought it...which I was frankly amazed at...I put in a post-auction offer, and bought it! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]535367[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]535368[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]535369[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]535370[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]535371[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]535372[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]535373[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]535374[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]535375[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a 19th-century Chinese tabletop mirror screen. </p><p><br /></p><p>From the little research I was able to do about it, I believe the wood is &quot;Hongmu&quot;, or Chinese blackwood (if it&#039;s something else, please tell me? I don&#039;t know bugger-all about identifying wood!). The stunning inlays are all done in mother-of-pearl. </p><p><br /></p><p>I loved this piece from the second I saw it, and I just so badly wanted to buy it. I can&#039;t believe I was actually successful. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll freely admit, one of the reasons why I wanted to buy it is because it&#039;s of a style of furniture (dark woods with pearl inlays) that was particularly popular with the Peranakan Chinese of Southeast Asia, which is one of my main areas of collecting. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t wait to one day find a place to put this thing where it&#039;ll be a real statement piece![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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