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A BLACK LACQUERED GILT AND POLYCHROME-
DECORATED CABINET
Late 17th century
The cabinet of rectangular shape, finely decorated with
mythical beasts and exotic birds perching on branches of
flowering prunus, the sides with further birds amidst flowering
shrubs, the pair of doors set with a shaped lockplate enclosing
an arrangement of ten drawers, set on a later lacquered stand.
The cabinet 58.5cm (23in) wide x 34.5cm (13 1/2in) deep
x 47.5cm (18 7/8in) high; the stand 90cm (35 3/8in) high x
63.5cm (25in) wide x 40cm (15 6/8in) deep. (2).
£4,000 - 6,000
CNY36,000 - 54,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設
底價

十七世紀晚期 黑漆彩繪花鳥紋櫃

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: R.Keverne Ltd., Winter
Exhibition, London, 2008, no.117

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，
倫敦，2008年，編號117

See a related black lacquered gilt and polychrome-decorated
cabinet, but with hunting scenes, Kangxi, illustrated by
P.Carvalho, The World of Lacquer: 2000 Years of History,
Lisbon, 2001, p.59, no.16. Such cabinets are more often
found in Coromandel lacquer, see for example, M.Jourdain
and S.Jenyns, Chinese Export Art in the Eighteenth Century,
Feltham, 1967, p.83, pl.20. See also a lacquer box painted
with similar birds, illustrated by K.Herberts, Oriental Lacquer:
Art and Technique, New York, 1963, pp.234-235.

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A BONE-INLAID BLACK LACQUER SEAL CHEST
Kangxi
The compartmented red lacquer interior containing two long
and two square drawers, the exterior elaborately inlaid with
scenes of boys at play, ladies and gentlemen at leisure with
205 boys in attendance, in riverside gardens with distant retreats
amongst pine and rockwork, metal fittings.
35cm (13 3/4in) high x 32.5cm (12 3/4in) wide x 22cm
(8 5/8in) deep.
£2,000 - 4,000
CNY18,000 - 36,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設
底價

清康熙 黑漆嵌骨佚樂圖箱

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd.,
Summer Exhibition, London, 2012, no.112.

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，
倫敦，2012年，編號112

Compare with a related ivory-inlaid black lacquer box with
similar decoration, mid Qing dynasty, illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum,
Shenzhen, 2006, p.259, no.193; see also a black lacquer
bone-inlaid sedan chair document box and cover, 17th
century, from the Sir Harry Garner collection now in the
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, illustrated in the Oriental
Ceramic Society and British Museum exhibition Chinese Ivories
206 from the Shang to the Qing, London, 1984, p.195, pl.282.

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