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A CINNABAR LACQUER BOX AND COVER Lacquer boxes of this small delicate size were generally used
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY for keeping rouge or as incense box to hold aromatic pellets
and pieces of scented wood. The attractive floral carving also
the domed cover and the box crisply carved with flower suggests that it was probably made for a lady to be used in
blooms wreathed in dense foliage, the interior and the her chamber. A similar example is preserved in the National
recessed base lacquered reddish-brown, the base incised with Palace Museum, Taipei, published in Masterpieces of Chinese
a Yongle mark Lacquer Ware, Taipei, 1971, pl. 18. Another similar box from the
5.6 cm, 2¼ in. Baoyizhai Collection of Chinese Lacquer sold in these rooms,
8th April 2014, lot 34.
HK$ 90,000-120,000
US$ 11,500-15,300
明十五世紀 剔紅葵花紋蓋盒
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