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A RARE CARVED RED LACQUER TWO-TIERED RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)
The top and canted sides of the cover, and the sides of the middle section, are well carved with charming
scenes of boys at play (‘Hundred Boys’ motif) in garden settings, the decoration on the cover is above
a narrow band of confronted chilong which is repeated at the rim of the lower section above a band of
fowering branches on the tapered lower body, all reserved on diaper grounds. The interiors and base are
covered in dark brown lacquer.
8º in. (21 cm.) long

$40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE
Sammy Y. Lee & Wangs Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, 1973.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Christie’s New York, 18 March 2009, lot 370.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.
LITERATURE
Lee Yu-kuan, Oriental Lacquer Art, New York/Tokyo, 1972, p. 192, no. 124.
明萬曆 剔紅嬰戲圖二撞長方蓋盒

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