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fig.1: Zhao Mengfu (1254 - 1322), Sheep and Goat;
image courtesy of the Freer and Sackler Galleries,
Washington, D.C.;

fig.2: Han Gan (706-783), Night-Shining White; image
courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York.

fig.3: front cover of Spink’s Ltd., London, 1992

fig.1

fig.2 fig.3

The Property of Dr Desmond Morris
德斯蒙德·莫利斯博士藏品

270 It is interesting to note that a sheep and goat on the bottom left of the
A rare Tibetan painted lacquer cabinet cabinet, as well as a horse above on the same cabinet door, are closely
18th century related to two very famous Chinese paintings. These have been inspired
The wooden cabinet formed as a lobed niche covered by two hinged by a painting Sheep and Goat by the Yuan dynasty literatus Zhao
doors, the sides, doors and base all joined by lengths of brass and rivets, Mengfu (1254-1322) (see fig.1 above top), currently in the collection
the interior and exterior all covered with a rust-red lacquer and the doors of the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, D.C., while the horse
vividly painted in the lower section with animals in the Underworld is a reverse copy of the painting Night-Shining White, the fiery stallion
including dogs devouring a human corpse, horses accompanied by skulls depicted by the Tang painter Han Gan (706-783), in the collection of the
and other spirits, the upper section with human body parts trailing from Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (see fig.2 above left).
smoke wreaths beside four black birds.
40cm (15¾in) high
£20,000 - 25,000
HK$240,000 - 290,000 CNY190,000 - 240,000

十八世紀 朱地彩繪漆動物紋藏式箱

Provenance: acquired from Spink’s, London, and illustrated on the front
cover of the exhibition catalogue Tibetan Art at Spink, London, 16th -
30th October 1992 (see fig.3 above right).

來源：購於倫敦斯賓克，著錄在1992年10月16至30日Tibetan Art at
Spink展覽圖錄封面上

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