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2098 2099
A SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND GOLD
VARIOUS PROPERTIES FOIL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER CUSHION-
2098 FORM BOX AND COVER
A SMALL EMBELLISHED BAMBOO-VENEER HEXAGONAL BOX AND COVER 18TH-19TH CENTURY
19TH CENTURY
The cover is decorated in the center with
The center of the cover is carved with a pine tree with pale milky-green-stained needles in a a roundel of a bird perched in a prunus
landscape within a raised, lobed border, and the shoulders are carved with foliate sprays above branch, surrounded by four roundels of
the narrow sides carved with continuations of the various scenes carved on the facets of the fowers, all above four further roundels of
box, which is raised on a foot of conforming shape. fowers on the box, and all reserved on a fne
2¡ in. (6 cm.) wide diaper ground. The interior of the cover is
inlaid with a fruiting peach sprig, and the
$6,000-8,000 interior of the box with a butterfy. A two-
character mark, Qianli, within a square, is
PROVENANCE: inlaid in mother-of-pearl on the slightly
concave base.
Estate of Peter L. Rosenberg (1933-2013), Connecticut. 1¬ in. (4.3 cm.) diam., lacquer box and
cover, Japanese wood box
This small bamboo veneer (zhu huang) box is similar in technique to a large bamboo-veneer circular
box from the collection of Mrs. L. Dreyfus included in the exhibition, Arts of the Ch’ing Dynasty, $4,000-6,000
Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 26 May - 2 July 1964, no. 461, and another, possibly its mate, sold
at Christie’s New York, 14-15 September 2009, lot 228. See, also, the similarly small bamboo veneer Compare the larger (7.15 cm. wide) mother-of-
box of petal-lobed shape carved with blossoming branches, dated to the Daoguang period, illustrated pearl and gold foil-inlaid lacquer covered box
by Ip Yee and Laurence Tam, Chinese Bamboo Carving Part II, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1982, pp. with a Qianli mark, of futed, lobed hexagonal
246-47, no. 61, where the fowers appear to be a different color than the veneer background. shape, illustrated by G. Tsang and H. Moss in
the exhibition catalogue, Arts from the Scholar’s
清十九世紀 竹黃開光古松圖六瓣式蓋盒 Studio, Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong,
1986, pp. 168-69, no. 144. Like the present
138 covered box, the decoration includes diaper
pattern, and small fruiting branches on the
interior, but the circular Qianli mark, also in seal
characters, is inlaid in gold rather than mother-
of-pearl. According to the catalogue entry,
Jiang Qianli was a late Ming or Kangxi period
lacquerer. The Qianli mark, however, continued
to be used on small inlaid lacquer wares
throughout the Qing dynasty.

清十八/十九世紀
黑漆螺鈿點金開光花卉紋小圓蓋盒
底款：千里

2099 (mark)

2100
A SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID
BLACK LACQUER PRUNUS-FORM BOX AND
COVER
18TH-19TH CENTURY

The box and cover are divided into fve
lobes fnely inlaid with various diaper
patterns within line borders and centered on
the cover by a small gold lacquer fower head
and on the base by a small gold lacquer leaf.
2 in. (5 cm.) wide

$6,000-8,000

清十八/十九世紀
黑漆螺鈿点金梅花式小蓋盒