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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
1231
A FINELY CARVED RED LACQUER SQUARE BOX AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The top of the cover is fnely carved with a panel depicting two scholars and an attendant standing
standing
on a terrace with a third scholar seated inside a pavilion where another attendant holds his staf, all
s staf, all
arved with
surrounded by a mountainous landscape and a lake. The sides of the cover and box are carved with
four shaped panels enclosing various fowers separated by the Eight Buddhist Emblems (bajixiang)
(bajixiang)
at the canted corners. The interior and base are lacquered black.
11º in. (28.6 cm.) wide, cloth box
$60,000-80,000
PROVENANCE
Galerie Pader, Paris, 10 April 1943.
M. le Professeur Robert de Strycker (1903-1968) and Mme. de Strycker (1915-2010) Collection.
ection.
Drouot, Piasa, Paris, 5 December 2007, lot 32.
Professor Robert de Strycker and his wife Isabelle began to collect Asian works of art in 1938, with a a
938, with
special focus on Chinese lacquer. They formed a large and varied collection of lacquer ranging from
nging from
n included
the Yuan dynasty to the nineteenth century, which encompassed all styles. The collection included
extraordinary works such as the famous tixi ewer sold at Drouot, Piasa, Paris, 5 December 2007, lot 56,
r 2007, lot 56,
as well as the present box and cover, lot 32.
but of fower
A carved cinnabar lacquer box and cover of comparable size and with similar decoration, but of fower
form, is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Collection of
06, p. 14, no.
Treasures of the Palace Museum - 46 - Lacquer Wares of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 2006, p. 14, no. 8. 8.
清乾隆 剔紅山水人物圖方蓋盒

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