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PROPERTY FROM THE QUEK KIOK LEE COLLECTION
(LOTS 3128-3152)
郭克禮家族珍藏（拍品3128-3152）

3128
A LARGE CARVED POLYCHROME LACQUER
‘SPRING’ CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The cover with layers of lacquer in red, black, and brown is deeply
and crisply carved with Shoulao seated under a pine in a roundel
within a large ‘Chun’ (spring) character and flanked by a pair of
five-clawed dragons amidst clouds above a basin overflowing
with auspicious emblems. On the rounded sides of the box and
cover, four shaped cartouches enclosing leafy sprays of peaches are
divided by the Eight Buddhist Emblems, Bajixiang, against a dense
diaper with lozenge. The interior and base are lacquered black.
15 ¿ in. (38.3 cm.) diam.
PROVENANCE
Acquired in London, circa 1990
HK$400,000-600,000 US$51,000-77,000
A similar box and cover with a gilt Qianlong six-character
mark but a red lacquered interior in the Palace Museum,
Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji: Lacquer,
Beijing, vol. 8, 1989, pl. 172, p. 171. Another similar box in the
National Palace Museum, Taiwan, is illustrated in the Gugong
qiqi tezhan mulu (A Special Exhibition of Lacquer Wares in the
Palace Museum), Taipei, 1981, pl. 67, together with the Jiajing
prototype of the box, no. 37.

清乾隆 剔彩春壽百寶蓋盒

來源
約 1990 年代購於倫敦
郭克禮珍藏
北京故宮博物院藏有一類似件附乾隆六字款，其載於《中國美
術全集》，北京，第 8 冊，圖版 172 號，頁 171。此外，台北故
宮亦藏有一件乾隆六字楷書款的剔彩春壽寶盒，見《故宮漆器
特展目錄》，台北，1981 年，圖版 67 號。同書圖版 37 亦刊有
一件嘉靖剔彩春壽寶盒，以茲比較。

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