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A RARE CARVED POLYCHROME LACQUER 清乾隆 剔彩騰龍抱珠海水八寶紋方盒
‘DRAGON’ SQUARE BOX AND COVER 本漆盒上的正面騰龍設計承襲晚明御製漆器的樣式，如北京故宮博物院
藏一件萬曆剔紅圓盒，上面同樣雕一條五爪騰龍環抱火珠，著錄於故宮
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) 博物院藏文物珍品全集，《元明漆器》，香港，2006年，圖版166號。
The cover is carved through thick layers of red and green lacquer 另可參考兩件乾隆時期的雕漆盒，上面的正面五爪龍形態與神髓均與本
to a yellow diaper ground with a bracket-lobed cartouche 盒上的躍龍相似，一件藏台北國立故宮博物院，見1981年台北出版《故
enclosing a five-clawed dragon embracing a flaming pearl amidst 宮漆器特展目錄》，圖版54號；另一件藏北京故宮博物院，著錄於1985
cloud scrolls and above rocky outcrops emerging from crashing 年北京出版《故宮博物院藏雕漆》，圖版316號。
waves, the corners outside the cartouche with eight precious
objects borne on scrolls. The sides of the box and cover are
similarly carved with rectangular panels containing composite
floral scrolls, surrounded by a dense ground of lingzhi scrolls. The
interiors and base are lacquered black. The base is incised with a
Qianlong six-character mark.
11 æ in. (30 cm.) square, box
HK$800,000-1,200,000 US$110,000-160,000
The design of a single frontal dragon leaping above outcrops and waves
found on the current box is inspired by prototypes from the late Ming
period, such as a circular Wanli cinnabar lacquer box carved with a
frontal five-clawed dragon embracing a flaming pearl in the Palace
Museum Collection, illustrated in Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming
Dynasties, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum,
Hong Kong, 2006, pl. 166.
Compare to two Qianlong lacquer boxes with single frontal dragons
embracing flaming pearls that are similarly rendered to the one on the
present box, one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in
Gugong Qiqi Tezhan Mulu, Taipei, 1981, pl. 54; the other in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Diaoqi, Beijing,
1985, pl. 316.
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