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           A SMALL YELLOW LACQUER ‘PEONY’
           BOX AND COVER
           MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY

           of circular form, the box and cover meticulously carved in
           varied levels of relief through the ochre-yellow lacquer to the
           cinnabar-red layer below with a large peony bloom surrounded
           by leaves naturalistically bending and curling, the interior
           lacquered black
           (2)
           4.9 cm, 1⅞ in.
           ‡ £ 8,000-12,000                                                        111
           HK$ 81,500-122,000   US$ 10,400-15,500

           明十五世紀   剔黃牡丹紋印泥盒




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                                                                 PROPERTY OF AN ENGLISH LADY AND GENTLEMAN
                                                                 A PAINTED AND GILT-DECORATED
                                                                 RED LACQUER BOX AND COVER
                                                                 MING DYNASTY, CHONGZHEN
                                                                 PERIOD, DATED TO 1630

                                                                 of rectangular form, the top of the box intricately painted and
                                                                 gilt depicting a lively celebratory courtyard scene centred by
                                                                 Tang dynasty general Guo Ziyi surrounded by lively musicians
                                                                 and attendants baring gifts, set with a mountainous landscape
                                                                 in the far distance, the exterior of the box with flowering plants
                                                                 and birds, the foot and rim bordered with gilt, all against a
                                                                 red ground, the base and interior lacquered black, the base
                                                                 inscribed in red with Chongzhen sannian hangchuan zhang
                                                                 shengyuan liande zhi zheng (Dedicated by Zhang Shengyuan of
                                                                 Hangchuan, during the third year of Chongzhen)
                                                                 (2)
                                                                 67.6 cm, 26⅝ in.
                                                                 Compare two boxes of this type, the first painted with figures
                                                                 arriving at a grand reception, and the other decorated with
                                                                 a scene of visit in the central panel, from the Florence and
                                                                 Herbert Irving collection and now in the Metropolitan Museum
                                                                 of Art, New York, included in the Museum’s exhibition East
                                                                 Asian Lacquer from the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection,
                                                                 1991, cat. nos 66-7 respectively.

                                                                 £ 10,000-15,000
                                                                 HK$ 102,000-152,000   US$ 13,000-19,400
                                                                 明崇禎三年(1630年)   朱漆描金郭子儀祝壽圖長方蓋盒
                                                                 《崇禎三年杭川張省源聮德置》、《正》款










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