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A CINNABAR LACQUER PEACH-SHAPED ‘SANDUO’ BOX AND A RARE CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER CABINET
COVER Qianlong/Jiaqing
Qianlong The rectangular cabinet with canted shoulders containing two drawers,
Finely carved in varying levels through red, with a central cartouche of with two doors opening to reveal a shelf above a wide drawer,
an Immortal followed by a demon carrying a double-gourd, standing rising from a waisted base and tapering foot with shaped edges, all
on a shore beside pine issuing from rockwork, all encircled by scrolling surmounted by a smaller rectangular cabinet with two doors, the doors
peaches, finger citron and pomegranate amidst dense branches and carved in low relief with a landscape scene with ladies and children
leaves, the box decorated en suite, the interior and base lacquered within a garden terrace, the drawers each carved with sages and
black. attendants in a mountainous landscape, the top section carved with
16cm (6 1/4in) high. (2) flowers, the sides with diaper-pattern ground.
50cm (19 3/4in) high.
£3,000 - 5,000
CNY24,000 - 39,000 £4,000 - 6,000
CNY31,000 - 47,000
清乾隆 剔彩道教人物「三多」紋桃式蓋盒
清乾隆/嘉慶 剔紅亭台人物圖小櫃
Compare with a similar pair of peach-shaped boxes and covers with
Daoist Immortals, Qianlong, which was presented by the Qianlong Provenance: an English private collection
emperor to Lord Macartney’s Embassy of 1792-1794, illustrated by
J.Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her 來源：英國私人收藏
Majesty the Queen, London, 2016, p.865, nos.1988-1989.

See a single related cinnabar lacquer peach box and cover with an
Immortal on the cover, 18th century, which was sold at Sotheby’s
London, 18 May 2018, lot 458.

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