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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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