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A RARE THREE-COLOUR CINNABAR
LACQUER 'INGOT' BOX AND COVER
Qianlong
The steeply curved sides rising from a splayed foot, the cover intricately
carved through multiple layers of red, black and yellow lacquer with
a Buddhist landscape scene of a Karmapa wearing his iconic Black
Crown and holding a wish-granting ruyi-head sceptre in one hand, his
disciples holding coral and another subduing a Buddhist lion, the sides
elaborately decorated with eight quatrefoil and ruyi-shaped cartouches
enclosing deer and cranes on a deeply carved trefoil ground, all
interspersed with meandering lotus tendrils between borders of
keyfret scroll and lotus lappets, the interior and base lacquered black,
wood stand.
30cm (11 3/4in) wide (3).
HK$300,000 - 400,000
US$39,000 - 52,000
清乾隆 剔彩人物故事圖銀錠式蓋盒
Provenance 來源:
An English private collection
英國私人收藏

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