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RARE BOITE COUVERTE EN LAQUE ROUGE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795) It is rare to find lacquer boxes of the Qianlong period so deeply and roundly
Reposant sur un pied circulaire aplati laqué rouge, elle est entièrement carved with designs of such intricate and complex composition. Compare
ornée de scènes de jeunes enfants jouant dans un pavillon, sur une terrasse with three very similar Qianlong 'boys' boxes and covers, one with a Qianlong
arborée ou dans des jardins, occupés à jouer, pêcher ou faisant de la musique ; mark from the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu
l'intérieur et la base laqués noir. Quanji, Lacquer, Vol. 8, no. 168, p. 168; another illustrated in Le Musée Chinois
Diamètre: 14,5 cm. (5æ in.)
de l'Impératrice Eugénie, p. 49; and a third in The Asian Art Museum of San
€50,000-70,000 US$59,000-82,000 Francisco illustrated by Hai-Wai Yi-Chen, Chinese Art in Overseas Collections,
£46,000-63,000 Lacquerware, pl. 155.
A FINE CINNABAR LACQUER ‘BOYS’ CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER See a very similar example sold in Christie's Hong Kong, 5-6 November 1997,
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) lot 911, another slightly larger exemple, depicting the same subject of 'hundred
boys', sold in Christie's Paris, 14 December 2011, lot 41, and a third one sold in
清乾隆 剔紅嬰戲圖圓蓋盒 Sotheby's London, 16 May 2018, lot 38.
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