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384A

fig.1 A gilt-lacquered ‘wan’ box and cover, Qing Dynasty; image 384A
courtesy of the Palace Museum, Beijing. A rare large wan-character-shaped lacquer box and cover
Qing Dynasty
412 | Bonhams The cover painted on a red lacquer ground with twelve gilt wan
characters in seven different forms surrounded by ten bats in flight
amidst foliate lotus scrolls, the sides with four bats each grasping a spray
of two peaches in its mouth, alternating with lotus blossoms on leafy
scrolls and one further bat between lotus, the sides of the box similarly
decorated with five bats amidst lotus scrolls, the interior and underside
lacquered black.
52.5cm (20 5/8in) diam. (2).
£2,000 - 3,000
HK$24,000 - 35,000 CNY19,000 - 28,000

清 彩漆蝠壽紋萬字形蓋盒

Provenance: a German private collection

來源：德國私人收藏

Compare a related large gilt black-lacquer 'wan' box and cover,
mid-Qing Dynasty from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Lacquer, Beijing,
2006, no.123 (see fig.1 left).