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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JOHN AND
JULIA CURTIS
~1671
A HUANGHUALI BOX
17TH CENTURY
The top of the hinged cover has ruyi-shaped
baitong mounts at the corners and square handles
at the sides, and a shaped, two-part lockplate and
cloud-form hasp in front.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high, 14¿ in. (36 cm.) wide, 8º in. (21
cm.) deep

$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE
Sydney L. Moss, Ltd., London, 1986.
十七世紀 黃花梨小箱

1671

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE MASSACHUSETTS
COLLECTION
1672
A SMALL LINGBI SCHOLAR’S ROCK
The stone is of irregular horizontal form with
small jagged edges, reminiscent of a mountain
range with snow-capped peaks. The limestone is
of greyish-black tone with creamy-russet calcite
inclusions, interspersed with striations of paler
color.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) wide, softwood stand by Clif A.
Johnson, Los Angeles, c. 1999.
$3,000-5,000

Compare the present scholar’s rock to a 1672
related example illustrated by R. D. Mowry in
Worlds Within Worlds: The Richard Rosenblum
Collection of Chinese Scholars’ Rocks, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1997, pp.185-86, no. 18.
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