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A SMALL CARVED BLACK AND RED LACQUER ‘PEONY’ INCENSE

BOX AND COVER

MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY

The top of the cover is carved through the black lacquer to the red lacquer ground with
peony blossoms, with furled petals surrounding the stamens meticulously picked out with
floral diaper, above the sides carved with a key-fret pattern which is similarly repeated on
the sides of the box. The interior and the base lacquered black.
2 √ in. (7.3 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

HK$120,000-180,000 US$16,000-23,000

PROVENANCE

A Japanese private collection, Nagoya, acquired in the 1940s

明十五 / 十六世紀 紅地剔黑牡丹紋香盒

來源
名古屋私人珍藏，1940年代入藏

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