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An English Private Collection of Tibetan Furniture

Lots 95 to 111

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A PAINTED LACQUERED WOOD A PAINTED AND LACQUERED WOOD Compare with an almost identical storage
‘DOUBLE DRAGON’ STORAGE CHEST ‘DRAGON’ STORAGE CHEST chest, possibly the pair, in ‘Light of
Tibet, 17th/18th century Tibet, 17th/18th century Compassion - Buddhist Art From Nepal and
Lacquered and painted with a pair of Decorated to the front with a quatrefoil panel Tibet’, Spink & Son Ltd., 1997, p.85, no. 50.
confronting dragons flanking the wheel of enclosing a writhing dragon holding an
dharma amongst clouds scrolls and above offering tray of precious jewels and grasping As noted by Luca and Camilla Corona
tumultuous waves crashing against rocks, a flaming pearl amongst dense scrolling (Wooden Wonders: Tibetan Furniture in
their scaly hides picked out in stippled peonies, on a floral brocade pattern ground, Secular and Religious Life, Chicago, 2004,
lacquer, all enclosed within a shaped within cusped foliate corner panels and a p. 48) during the time of stability within
cartouche reserved on a red-ground brocade floral borer reserved on red ground. 51cm Tibet during the rule of the Fifth Dalai Lama
pattern framed by corner spandrels and a (20.2in) high x 38.5cm (15 1/8in) deep x (late 17th century) trade and relations with
foliate border. 60cm (23 1/2in) high x 44.5cm 102.5cm (40 3/8in) wide the Manchu rulers of China flourished,
(17 1/2in) deep x 109cm (46 3/4in) wide ‘Gifts flowed in from Mongol and Manchu
£1,500 - 2,500 patrons, and Chinese brocades became the
£1,500 - 2,500 HK$15,000 - 25,000 predominant source of inspiration for the
HK$15,000 - 25,000 CNY13,000 - 22,000 design vocabulary of the boxes, which were
CNY13,000 - 22,000 in turn used to store the same brocades’.

For an example of a storage chest mounted
with Ming Period brocade panels, see
‘Heavens Embroidered Cloths - One
Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles’, Urban
Council of Hong Kong, 1995, pp.194-195.

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