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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
1625
A RED LACQUER 'DRAGON' BOX AND COVER
JIAJING INCISED AND GILT SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF
THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
The top of the box is deeply carved with a sinuous dragon writhing
around a shou medallion between camellia and crabapple to one side
and a fruiting branch and lingzhi to the other, above a band of phoenixes
alternating with cranes in flight between rose sprays on the sloping
shoulder, which is repeated on the rounded lower body below a band of
lingzhi meander on the vertical sides. The gilt-highlighted reign mark is
incised in a line in the center of the black-lacquered base.
11 in. (28 cm.) diam.
$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE:
Julio Dormal (1846-1924), Paris and Buenos Aires, and by descent to his
son Carlos Dormal, Buenos Aires, and thence by descent to the present
owners.
(mark)
(another view)
明嘉靖 剔紅龍鳳紋圓蓋盒 六字漆金刻款

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