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280 清嘉慶 剔紅西園雅集圖捧盒
A LARGE CINNABAR LACQUER ‘ELEGANT GATHERING’ BOX
AND COVER Compare with a related box and cover, dated to the 18th century,
Jiaqing illustrated in the National Palace Museum, Carving the Subtle Radiance
The cover crisply incised in the central medallion with a vividly detailed of Colours Treasured Lacquerware in the National Palace Museum,
scene of literati and their attendants engaged in the various elegant Taipei, 2008, pl.160, p.152; another example is illustrated in The
arts, under a pavilion two scholars play a game of weiqi, while another Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Lacquer
man gazes out to the scholar at his desk painting or writing on a Wares of the Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2006, pl.37, p.57.
fan between two admiring gentlemen, three boy-attendants gather
around the stove to prepare the tea, another scholar is followed by
his attendant carrying a qin, all within a mountainous scape of various
diaper grounds with gnarling pine, bamboo and wutong trees, all
enclosed by a lotus scroll band and a key-fret border and lappets, the
sides with eight panels containing scenes of scholars and attendants
within landscapes, on a ground of densely scrolling lotus.
37.4cm (14 3/4in) diam. (2).

£25,000 - 30,000 CNY230,000 - 280,000
HK$270,000 - 330,000