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A CARVED RED LACQUER
BOX AND COVER WITH INNER TRAY
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
The top is carved with a scene of two scholars
approaching an audience hall in which are a seated
oficial and his young attendant all within a garden
with rocks, bamboo, pine tree, plantain, and potted
fowers. The sides of both the cover and the box
are carved with blossoming prunus and camellia
sprays, all against a cell-pattern diaper ground.
9¡ in. (23.8 cm.) long, Japanese wood box
$30,000-50,000

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Tokyo, formed in the 1930-40s.
A similar late Ming red lacquer rectangular box
and cover, decorated with a garden scene of
scholars on the top and fowers and birds on
the sides, from the Qing Court collection, is
illustrated in Complete Collection of Treasures
of the Palace Museum - 45 - Lacquer Wares of
the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2006,
p. 248, pl. 196 and by Chen Lihua, ed., Carved
Lacquerware, Beijing, 2008, p. 192, no. 129.
(another view)
明十六世紀 剔紅迎客圖蓋盒連內嵌托盤

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