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A BAMBOO-VENEERED TWO-TIER

QUADRILOBED BOX AND COVER

QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

The cover is finely carved in low relief with a quadrilobed
medallion constituted of archaistic scrolls within a border with
geometric design above a petal-lappet band on the shoulder. The
sides of the cover, middle section and lower section, are carved
with stylised ruyi scroll panels. All is raised on a foot of conforming
outline.
6 in. (15.4 cm.) wide, box

HK$150,000-300,000 US$20,000-39,000

PROVENANCE

L’Extreme Orient Co., Hong Kong, 28 May 1992

A two-tiered bamboo-veneered quadrilobed box of comparable size and
very similar decoration, dated to mid-Qing dynasty, is in the collection
of Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in The Palace Museum
Collection of Elite Carvings, Beijing, 2002, pp. 82-83, no. 51. Compare,
also, another closely related pair in the shape of ruyi and dated to
Qianlong, sold at Christie’s New York, 15 September 2009, lot 368.

清十八世紀 文竹纏枝紋海棠式雙層蓋盒 another view
另一面
來源
東藝，香港，1992年5月28日

可參考北京故宮博物院館藏一件不論尺寸和紋飾均與本盒幾近相同之
文竹海棠式雙層盒，其定年為清中期，載於《故宮雕刻珍萃》，北
京，2002年，頁82-83，編號51。另可參見一對乾隆文竹如意式雙層
盒，於紐約佳士得拍賣，2009年9月15日，拍品368號。

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