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A LARGE AND RARE IMPERIAL CINNABAR LACQUER
FAN-SHAPED BOX AND COVER
Qianlong
The cover exquisitely carved with two scholars and attendants on
a boat gazing up at a distant crane in the sky, on the terrace a boy-
attendant prepares to release another crane while a further attendant
holds a cup awaiting the scholars return from their outing, all amidst
a lakeside landscape with pine, wutong trees and rocks, the scene
enclosed by a key-fret border, the sides of the box and cover carved
eight shaped panels of hexagonal floral diaper reserved on a lozenge
floral diaper, the interior and base lacquered black, raised on four
bracket feet.
38.8cm (15 1/4in) wide (2).

£30,000 - 40,000 CNY280,000 - 370,000
HK$330,000 - 440,000

清乾隆 御製剔紅放鶴亭記圖扇式蓋盒

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