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A RARE ENGRAVED AND GILT- 明永樂 朱漆戧金如意寶珠吉祥紋經文挾板
DECORATED RED-LACQUERED WOOD
SUTRA COVER 來源
萬玉堂，香港，1998年
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)
經板為木胎，通體髹紅漆為地，飾戧金紋。正面板沿四周飾雙蓮瓣
The slightly convex surface is finely engraved and gilt in qiangjin 紋，板心飾八吉祥紋中之輪、螺、傘、蓋，中央的寶瓶座上置三如
technique in the centre with the triple ‘flaming’ jewel, triratna, 意寶珠；較窄的一側飾纏枝蓮紋，另一側飾獅面卷草紋。背髹紅素
raised on an amrita vase which is flanked by four of the bajixiang, 漆。
including the Wheel of law, umbrella, canopy and conch shell,
each supported by a cushion nestled in a lotus blossom borne on 紐約大都會博物館曾展覽過一對相似例，見1991年紐約出版《East
a scrolling and enclosing leafy tendril, bordered by a row of lotus Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection》，頁116-
petals beneath a band of classic scroll. One narrow side is decorated 117。李氏家族舊藏一例，2009 年12 月1 日於香港佳士得專拍中拍
with a lion mask flanked by classic scrolls, the other side with 賣，拍品1821 號。另一對有刻字「大般若經第十二卷—宜聖大智慧
scrolling lotus. The underside is applied with plain red lacquer. 到到彼岸千百頌」，2012年11月28日於香港佳士得拍賣，拍品2260
31 º in. (79.5 cm.) long 號。

HK$120,000-180,000 US$16,000-23,000

PROVENANCE

Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong, 1998

Compare a pair of similar covers, dated c. 1410, published by
J.C.Y. Watt and B.B. Ford, East Asian Lacquer: The Florence
and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, 1991, pp. 116-7, where the authors note that these
lacquered covers provide the earliest examples of Ming-style
qiangjin work. Developed during the Southern Song period,
qiangjin is a technique where channels carved into a lacquer
groove are then filled with gold leaf or powder. The covers
demonstrate an evolution in this technique from a more sharply
cut free-form incision with a straight-edged instrument to a
U-shaped groove produced with a channelling tool resulting in
evenly spaced incisions.

A further set is illustrated by R.D. Jacobsen, Appreciating China,
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2002, no. 48. A set from the Lee
Family Collection was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, Important
Chinese Lacquer from the Lee Family Collection, Part II, 1 December
2009, lot 1821. An inscribed pair was sold at Christie’s Hong
Kong, 28 November 2012, lot 2260.

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