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A DARK BROWN AND RED TIXI LACQUER OCTAGONAL
BOX AND COVER
MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The box and cover are carved through the layers of dark brown and red lacquer A similar carved black and red tixi lacquer octagonal box and cover dated early
with bands of ‘pommel scrolls’, those on the cover surrounding a central Ming period, late 14th-early 15th century, in the Florence and Herbert Irving
star-like motif. Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is illustrated by James C. Y. Watt
and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert
9º in. (23.5 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box
Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992,
pp. 57-8, no. 12.
$20,000-30,000
明十四/十五世紀 剔犀八方蓋盒
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Tokyo, formed in the 1930-40s.

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