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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
1647
A RARE CARVED RED LACQUER FOUR-TIERED BOX AND COVER
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
The top of the cover is carved with a scene of two scholars playing weiqi in an open pavilion beside a lotus
pond where two ducks swim near a young attendant holding a lotus fower as he approaches the pavilion
on a narrow walkway, all above panels of various fowers including chrysanthemum, peony, lotus and rose
on the sides.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

$50,000-70,000

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Japan.
Christie’s New York, 19 March 2008, lot 346.
A three-tiered carved lacquer box of square section, decorated with scholars on the cover and fowers
of the four seasons on the sides, was included in the British Museum exhibition, Chinese and Associated
Lacquer from the Garner Collection, 2 October -2 December 1973, no. 48.
Another related four-tiered square lacquer box also carved with scholars at the top, previously in the
collection of Dr. Ip Yee, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 19 November 1984, lot 115. See, also, a six-
tiered lobed lacquer box with comparable fower scrolls on the sides, illustrated by Hu Shih-chang in
Chinese Lacquer, Edinburgh, 1998, p. 53, pl. 28.
明十六世紀 剔紅高士對奕圖四層方盒

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