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A CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER
SEAL PASTE BOX AND A COVER
JIAJING PERIOD, DATED DING WEI
YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1547

of compressed peach form, the cover with
scrolling lotus above a keyfret band, an engraved
inscription around the central knob providing the
date of manufacture as dingwei nian 12 yue 22
ri zao (corresponding to 1547), the base carved
with a lion roaming amid owers within a comb-
pattern band at the rim, the interior lacquered
brown-black (2)
Diameter 3½ in., 8.9 cm

$ 6,000-8,000

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A CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER
BOX AND COVER
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

of rectangular form crisply carved with the
principal motifs in high relief over a ne diaper
ground, the at cover with a scene of four
scholars appreciating paintings and antiquities
in a garden setting, with attendants, deer, rocks,
clouds, and vegetation completing the picture,
the sides of the box carved with blossoming
magnolia branches, the interior and base
lacquered black (2)
Length 5⅜ in., 13.7 cm
A nearly identical box in the Cincinnati Museum
of Art collection is illustrated in Ellen B. Avril,
Chinese Art in the Cincinnati Museum of Art,
Cincinnati, 1997, cat. no. 99.

$ 25,000-35,000

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