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A FINELY CARVED RED LACQUER SQUARE BOX AND COVER
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The top of the cover is carved with Shoulao holding a peach while standing
beside his deer beneath a pine tree beside a pond, all reserved on three diaper
grounds indicating the earth, the water and the sky. The sides of the cover and
box are carved with lotus fowers amidst foliage and archaistic scrolls at the
rounded corners. The interior and base are lacquered black.
9¿ in. (23 cm.) wide, silk stand

$20,000-30,000

Compare the very similar red lacquer box and cover, and possibly the pair to
the current example, carved with the same scene on the cover, but in mirror
image, formerly in the Ronald Chao Collection and now in the Zhejiang
Provincial Museum, illustrated in Many Splendors: Yuan, Ming and Qing
Lacquerware from the Chao Collection, Beijing, 2010, no. 74, where it is dated
mid Qing dynasty.
清十八/十九世紀 剔紅錦地長壽紋方蓋盒

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