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A RARE IMPERIAL CINNABAR LACQUER BOX AND COVER
Qianlong six-character and Xiaoxia Baohe four-character marks
and of the period
Of lobed form, deftly carved through thick layers of rich red lacquer,
the domed cover with a hexagonal cartouche featuring an elderly
scholar seated within a pavilion by a lotus pond with his young
attendant bringing forth a pile of books, gazing over at a distant
fisherman playing the flute on a sampan against a backdrop of willow
trees and mountains, the sides further decorated with twelve quatrefoil
cartouches enclosing floral sprays equally spaced between lotus
blossoms, all reserved on a dense ground of leafy scrolls and encased
within keyfret scroll borders, the interior and base lacquered black, the
interior of the cover engraved with a four-character xiaoxia baohe mark
in kaishu script, the base further engraved with a six-character
kaishu mark.
21cm (8 1/4in) wide (2).
HK$600,000 - 800,000
US$77,000 - 100,000
清乾隆 御製剔紅消暑寶盒
陰刻填金「大清乾隆年製」及「消暑寶盒」楷書款

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