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A FINE PAINTED LACQUER AND BASKETWORK BOX AND A MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID RECTANGULAR LACQUER
COVER TRAY
Ming Dynasty, 17th century Late Ming Dynasty
Of rectangular form with canted corners, the cover painted and With a central cartouche depicting a night scene with the full moon
gilt with a gentleman and attendant in a tree-strewn riverside high in the sky, with ladies and attendants in a terraced garden below
setting before a pavilion set against distant mountains, the interior a willow tree, all amidst a diaper ground, the rim embellished with a
similarly decorated with figures in a riverside landscape, within a gilt band of entwined foliage.
decorated floral border, the shaped basketwork panels to the exterior 38.2cm (15in) long
set within red lacquered borders.
41.5cm (16 3/8in) long (2).
£1,000 - 1,500
HK$9,700 - 15,000
£1,000 - 1,500 CNY8,500 - 13,000
HK$9,700 - 15,000
CNY8,500 - 13,000
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A CANTON EXPORT LACQUER ‘TEA PRODUCTION’ BOX AND
Exhibited COVER
Oriental Works of Art, Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., Summer 2005, no. 88. 19th century
Elaborately detailed in gilt with tea production scenes, the
Compare with a similar rectangular painted lacquer basket work compartmented interior with four dividers, the cover interior with
box, published East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving two arching leafy bushes. 10cm (4in) high x 25cm (9 7/8in) wide x
Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991, pp.142-143, no. 13.5cm (5 1/4in) deep (2).
66.
£800 - 1,200
HK$7,800 - 12,000
CNY6,800 - 10,000

Compare with a similar ‘tea production’ box, sold at Bonhams, New
York, ‘Cohen and Cohen - 50 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain’, 24
January 2023, lot 86.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. ASIAN ART - PART II | 179