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9/2/2020 Important Chinese Art | Sotheby's

倫敦蘇富比1974年3月5日，編號240
英國私人收藏，此後家族傳承

Exhibition
Chinese Carved Lacquer, 15th to 20th Century, Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1925, cat. no. 95.

展覽
《Chinese Carved Lacquer, 15th to 20th Century》，Spink & Son, Ltd.，倫敦，1925年，編號95

Catalogue Note
Compare related Qianlong carved cinnabar lacquer boxes used for storing religious scriptures, including a vertical box with a
sliding cover carved with a scene of an assembly of Daoist deities, together with a two-volume scripture, Huangtingjing (Yellow
Court Classic), preserved inside, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, included in the exhibition China: The Three Emperors 1662-1795,
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2005, cat. no. 60; another box from the Irving Collection, sold at Christie's New York, 20th March
2019, lot 809; a third example carved with a scene from the life of Buddha Shakyamuni preaching to his Buddhist disciples,
formerly in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Palmer, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in R. Soame
Jenyns and William Watson, Chinese Art. The Minor Arts, vol. II, New York, 1963, pl. 167; and a further box sold in our Paris rooms,
22nd June 2017, lot 122.

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