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A LARGE POLYCHROME LACQUER
SWEETMEAT BOX AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, LATE 18TH
CENTURY
of square form with ruyi-shaped corners
supported on four canted feet, the exterior
lacquered red with painted polychrome and gilt
decoration, the cover centered with a raised
panel of conforming shape with a central rosette
framed by four ruyi heads, the panel surrounded
by scrolling melon vines interspersed with
butter! ies and scrolling lotus " lling each of the
ruyi-form corners, the sides of the cover with
stylized lotus sprays alternating with rosettes
within square-scroll frames, the sides of the box
with continuous keyfret, the interior lacquered
black and " tted with nine shaped trays each gilt-
painted with lotus sprays, the base lacquered
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black (11)
Width 13⅝ in., 34.6 cm
$ 8,000-12,000
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A CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER
BOX AND COVER
QIANLONG MARK AND PERIOD
the circular cover carved through layers of
cinnabar lacquer to an ochre ground with
a central medallion enclosing the ‘Eight
Daoist Emblems’ amid ! ower heads borne on
meandering foliate scrolls, repeated on the sides,
the box similarly decorated, the interior and base
lacquered black, the base with a gilt-" lled incised
six-character mark in a vertical line(2)
Diameter 8⅝ in., 21.9 cm
Compare a very similar cinnabar lacquer box and
cover, also with a vertical reign mark to the center
of the base, as well as four additional characters
reading Baxian baohe (Eight Immortals treasure
box), in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated
in Carved Lacquer in the Collection of the Palace
Museum, Beijing, 1985, pl. 356; and another, with
just the Qianlong mark, was sold at Christie’s New
York, 22nd March 2007, lot 157.
603 $ 10,000-15,000
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