Page 195 - Sotheby's Chinese Art and Porcelain Auction New York September 12, 2018
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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION
A CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER
BRUSH AND COVER
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
the slender columnar brush handle relief-carved
with an old scholar and a boy playing a sheng
in a rockery below a willow and scrolled clouds,
the tapered end depicting a bird among fruiting
branches and rockwork, the cover carved
with two Þ gures gathering lingzhi, each scene
between decorative patterned bands (2)
Length 9⅝ in., 24.5 cm
$ 8,000-12,000
㖶⋩ℕᶾ䲨ġġġ⇼䲭檀⢓⚾䫮䭉⍲䫮ⷥ
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A CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER
FLORIFORM BOX AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
the six-lobed box with straight sides neatly 261
Þ tting into the conforming cover, the cover
coated in numerous layers of red lacquer and
carved to the top with a central lotus blossom,
its petals terminating in ruyi heads, encircled
by a band of ß oral scroll and further blossoms
and ribbons all over a wave-pattern ground,
the sides carved with bats soaring amidst
blossoming and fruiting peach boughs against
a ß oral diaper ground, the interiors and base
lacquered black (2)
Width 3 in., 7.6 cm
$ 6,000-8,000
㶭Ḧ昮ġġġ⇼䲭㱽廒䲳剙⺷味䙺
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