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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART FROM THE JUNKUNC COLLECTION | 瓊肯珍藏重要中國藝術

~674
A SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK Jiang Qianli, who specialized in inlaid lacquer, has
LACQUER HEXAGONAL BOX AND COVER traditionally been dated to the late Ming period, but more
17TH-18TH CENTURY recently is thought to have worked in the Kangxi period.
However, inlaid lacquer wares made in his style and bearing
The box and cover are made in the shape of a six-petaled flower, the
his name continued to be made throughout the Qing dynasty,
molded petals radiating from a small gold flower head in the center of
the cover and continuing onto the sloping shoulder, and repeated on the Compare the box of this shape and slightly larger size (7.15
sides of the box, are finely inlaid with gold flowers on grounds of different cm.), also with Qianli seal mark, illustrated by G. Tsang and
colors and patterns, and there are borders of diaper pattern at the rims. H. Moss, Arts from the Scholar's Studio, Hong Kong, 1986,
The base is inlaid in gold with a two-character maker's seal mark, Qianli, pp. 168-69, no. 144. The mark on the latter box is in a circle
surrounded by floral scroll. rather than a double square as on the present box, and the
shape of the foot is different, more lobed than that of the
2º in. (5.7 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box, silk pouch
present box. The decoration on the two boxes is very similar
$30,000-50,000 and, as with the present box and cover, the background inlay
to the gold flowers on each 'petal' is either in green, reddish-
PROVENANCE: purple or blue shell and of three different patterns, creating a
Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978) Collection. subtle change in color or tone.

十七/十八世紀 黑漆螺鈿花卉紋六方蓋盒
來源:
史蒂芬 • 瓊肯三世（1978年逝）珍藏。

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