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A LARGE QIANGJIN AND TIANQI
POLYCHROME AND GILT-LACQUER
LOBED ‘DRAGON’ BOX AND COVER
18TH CENTURY
The cover is decorated with a central full-face fve-clawed dragon
surrounded by four further fve-clawed dragons within a scalloped
border decorated with key fret. Each of the sixteen lobes of the cover
encloses a dragon above a narrow border of bats and clouds, which
is repeated on the box, and the lobes of the box enclose rocks amidst
crashing waves.
17æ in. (45.7 cm.) diam.

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE
Mr. J. S. Gillen Collection.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned in 1959.
清十八世紀 戧金填漆花瓣式龍紋大蓋盒
(another view)

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