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PROPERTY FROM THE KAISENDO MUSEUM LOTS 513–514

蟹仙洞博物館收藏 拍品編號 513–514

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PROPERTY FROM THE KAISENDO MUSEUM 明十五至十六世紀 PROPERTY FROM THE KAISENDO MUSEUM 明十五至十六世紀
A CINNABAR ‘TIXI’ LACQUER BOX AND COVER 朱面剔犀如意雲紋蓋盒 A CINNABAR LACQUER ‘SCHOLAR UNDER 剔紅松下高仕圖蓋盒
MING DYNASTY, 15TH - 16TH CENTURY PINE’ CYLINDRICAL BOX AND COVER
MING DYNASTY, 15TH - 16TH CENTURY
Japanese wood box
8.5 cm Japanese wood box
d. 6.3 cm; h. 6.5 cm
HK$ 40,000-60,000
US$ 5,200-7,800 HK$ 60,000-80,000
US$ 7,800-10,400
The carved design on the current box, known as tixi or the
Japanese term, guri (curves and circles), was a pattern
established towards the end of the Song dynasty. The
scrolling foliage design on the current box, referred to
as juancao (scrolling grass) or xiangcao (fragrant grass),
first appeared on Song dynasty lacquerwares and enjoyed
considerable popularity well into the Yuan dynasty.
See two tixi lacquer boxes of similar form and closely related
design, one in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco,
published in Hai-wai Yi-chen. Chinese Art in Overseas
Collections. Lacquerware, Taipei, 1987, pl. 73; and the other
included in the exhibition East Asian Lacquer. The Florence
and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, 1991, cat. no. 11.
Compare the tixi lacquer box and cover sold in our London
rooms, 16th May 2012, lot 68; and another, of larger size
(21.3 cm), sold in our New York rooms, 16th-17th September
2014, lot 546.

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