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A THREE-COLOURED CARVED LACQUER ‘PEACH’ BOX AND
COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The box is crafted in the form of a peach, with the cover decorated with a
conforming panel enclosing a scholar holding a pair of castanets on a terrace
below a wutong tree in a mountain landscape which is carved through to the
green-lacquer water and the black-lacquered sky. The sides of the cover and
box are decorated with pairs of peaches amongst fowers and fve bats, wufu.
4æ in. (12 cm.) long
£5,000-7,000 $6,600-9,200
€5,600-7,800
PROVENANCE
Private French collection.
清乾隆 剔彩高士圖壽桃形蓋盒

來源：法國私人珍藏

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