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A VERY RARE LARGE CARVED RED AND BLACK LACQUER The highly auspicious decoration – the peach shape of the box, Shoulao and
PEACH-FORM `SHOU’ BOX AND COVER his crane, the twin fish, and the border of bats and stylized shou characters –
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) are symbolic of longevity, good fortune, and happiness. The overall imagery
The top of the cover is finely carved with a panel of conforming peach shape conveyed is one that would suggest this box was made to commemorate a
and is deeply carved on a diaper ground with a bowl containing auspicious special birthday celebration, possibly commissioned by or for the emperor.
emblems and a shou medallion flanked by two wan symbols beneath a ruyi-
shaped panel containing a scene of Shoulao flying on a crane above the Eight A pair of peach-form lacquer boxes carved with a more commonly seen design
Immortals, Liu Hai, and another immortal, possibly Dongfang Shuo, shown of a chun (Spring) character flanked by dragons above a bowl filled with
riding on a bat, all enclosed by a border of bats and clouds beneath a pair of auspicious objects, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2022, lot 2899.
confronting fish. The sides of the cover and the box are carved with a key-fret
border at the rims and two rows of sixty permutations of the shou character on
a leiwen ground. The interior and base are lacquered black. 清乾隆 剔紅群仙祝壽圖桃式大盒
17¿ in. (43.4 cm.) wide 來源:
Royal Phoenix, 紐約, 1986年
$60,000-80,000
PROVENANCE:
Royal Phoenix, New York, 1986.

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