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A SILVER-LINED TIXI LACQUER
BOWL
SONG DYNASTY
the rounded sides rising from a raised foot to an
everted rim, the exterior deeply carved with a
ruyi-cloud scroll exposing the multiple layers of
black and red to a yellow ground, the interior lined
with an alloy with a silver-mounted mouth rim
and base
Diameter 4½ in., 10.8 cm
Similar tixi lacquer wares have been excavated
from Northern Song dynasty tombs, see
Zhongguo qiqi quanji/Corpus of Chinese
Lacquers, vol. 4: Fuzhou, 1998, pl. 119. Further tixi
lacquer bowls with silver lining are illustrated in
Simon Kwan, Chinese Lacquer (The Muwen Tang
Collection Series - Volume 20), Hong Kong, 2012,
pls 12, 13 and 15.
$ 10,000-15,000
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A CARVED LACQUER BRUSH AND
COVER
MING DYNASTY, 16TH / 17TH
CENTURY
the long cylindrical handle coated in numerous
layers of bright cinnabar lacquer carved to
varying depths with a scene of boys at play in an
elegant garden, three children sit by a latticed
balustrade playing with toys beside a man
holding a younger child and a foreigner wearing
a cap, all amidst soaring pines with incised bark,
blossoming prunus, and weathered rockwork over
" nely carved diaper grounds, a band of narrow
lappets by the bristles, the other end with a band
of keyfret, a stylized rosette at the base, the cover
carved with three further boys in a similar setting
between patterned bands and another stylized
rosette at the end (2)
Length 10¾ in., 27.1 cm
PROVENANCE
C. T. Loo & Co., Paris (according to label).
$ 8,000-12,000
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