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8011                                The ewer is elegantly formed with a pewter core, the wide body is
                                        finely carved through a thick layer of lacquer with ruyi clouds below the
    A HIGHLY IMPORTANT CINNABAR         conforming sloping shoulder with classic scrolls, which are repeated on the
    TIXI LACQUER HEXAGONAL EWER         arched handle and along the S-shaped spout. The interior and base are applied
                                        with a dark brown lacquer, with the reign mark incised on the base.
    JIAJING INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK  9 º in. (23.6 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
    AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
                                        PROVENANCE
    明嘉靖 剔犀如意雲紋六方執壺
    「大明嘉靖年製」楷書刻款                        Sold at Christie’s London, 14 December 1983, lot 54
                                        The Sammy Lee Collection
    HK$6,000,000-8,000,000             Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, Important Chinese Lacquer from the Lee
    US$780,000-1,000,000                Family Collection, 3 December 2008, lot 2126

                                        EXHIBITED

                                        The Museum of East Asian Art, Dragon and Phoenix: Chinese Lacquer
                                        Ware: The Lee Family Collection, Cologne, 24 March – 24 June 1990,
                                        Catalogue, col. pl. 19, no. 13
                                        Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990/91
                                        The Shoto Museum of Art, Chinese Lacquerware, Japan, 1991, no. 32

                                        LITERATURE

                                        Zhongguo Meishu Qiqi Quanji, vol. 5, Ming, Fuzhou, 1995, no. 121
                                        Zhongguo Qiqi Jinghua, Fuzhou, 2003, no. 214

                                        執壺錫胎,六棱式,撇口,細長頸,垂腹,平足,長曲流,曲
                                        型柄。通體髹朱漆,刀口斷層處露出黑漆二層,隨形雕琢三組
                                        不同的如意雲頭紋。底髹黑漆,正中楷書刻「大明嘉靖年製」
                                        款。

                                        來源
                                        倫敦佳士得,1983 年 12 月 14 日,拍品 54 號
                                        李汝寬珍藏
                                        香港佳士得,千文萬華 - 李氏家族重要漆器珍藏,2008 年 12
                                        月 3 日,拍品 2126 號

                                        展覽
                                        東亞藝術博物館,《Dragon and Phoenix: Chinese Lacquer Ware:
                                        The Lee Family Collection》,科隆,1990 年 3 月 24 日 - 6 月 24 日,
                                        彩色圖版 19 號,編號 13
                                        洛杉磯郡立美術館,1990-91 年
                                        松濤美術館,《中国の漆工芸》,東京,1991 年,編號 32

                                        著錄
                                        《中國美術漆器全集 -5- 明》,福州,1995 年,編號 121
                                        《中國漆器精華》,福州,2003 年,編號 214

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