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307 The present box and cover has all the attributes of the Imperial
An Imperial three-colour circular lacquer box workshops: it is luxuriously carved in three differently coloured layers
and cover of yellow, green and red; it is decorated on the sides with panels
Qianlong enclosing archaistic confronted dragons, inspired by the Qianlong
The cover exquisitely carved through three layers of yellow, green emperor’s call for inspiration to be derived from antiquity and which
and red lacquer with a detailed scene of a scholar writing on a scroll translated to all medium of arts imitating archaic bronze forms and
accompanied by a boy holding his brushpot and brushes, both decorative designs; and the playful imitation of one material using
figures on a terrace and being observed by a lady leaning out of a another demonstrated in the present box and cover in the rope-twist
pavilion, all set within an ornamental lotus pond around which other border so deftly carved.
scholars variously play chess in a bamboo grove, converse while Compare a related circular box and cover, Qianlong mark and period,
crossing a low bridge and inscribe calligraphy on a rock, the sides and another with a rope-twist and archaic dragon design, mid Qing
of the cover and box each divided by a rope border in six sections, Dynasty, from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete
each containing confronted animalistic stylised scrolls. Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Lacquer Wares of the
17.4cm (6¾in) diam. (2). Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2006, pls.26 and 53.
£40,000 - 60,000
HK$500,000 - 750,000 CNY390,000 - 590,000
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