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A FINELY CARVED LOBED CINNABAR 清乾隆 剔紅山水人物圖梅花式蓋盒
LACQUER BOX AND COVER 來源
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) 倫敦佳士得，2019 年 10 月 15 日，拍品 15 號
The box is of cinquefoil shape, the top is crisply carved in high 比較台北故宮博物院藏一件器型類似的例子，見《和光剔彩-故宮藏漆》，
relief to the upper surface with a raised central cartouche depicting 台北，2008 年，圖版 109 號。
a gathering of four immortals and two attendants in a mountainous
landscape with rocks, pine and wutong trees, all enclosed within a
peach, bat and peony border. The sides are carved with a swirling
crashing wave design, and the foot with a band of key-fret border.
12æ in. (32.5 cm.) diam.
HK$400,000-600,000 US$52,000-77,000

PROVENANCE
Sold at Christie’s London, 15 October 2019, lot 15
Compare a carved red lacquer box of this shape also of Qianlong date,
carved with a different figural scene within a very similar border and
with very similar waves on the sides, in the National Palace Museum
collection, illustrated in Carving the Subtle Radiance of Colors:
Treasured Lacquerware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2008,
no. 109.

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