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PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER 9259
A LARGE BLACK AND GILT LACQUERED CIRCULAR
9256 STORAGE BOX
A THREE-COLOR LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER 20th century
Late Qing/Republic period The flat top painted with birds on a flowering branch and the curving
Using layers of red, dark yellow and green lacquer in high relief to walls of each section encircled with bands of butterflies amid
depict on the cover top a large bowl of auspicious emblems and flowering gourd vines, small chips to the black lacquer ground along
radiating rays of light that rise toward the character chun also fronted the tall foot revealing a layer underneath of gray clay applied onto the
with Shoulao portrayed in a roundel, the upright sides similarly wood core, the interior surfaces finished in black lacquer (chips).
worked with flower and leaf reserves and the remaining surfaces 19 3/4in (50cm) diameter
coated with black lacquer (surface wear, old chips).
6 1/2in (16.5cm) diameter US$1,200 - 1,800
US$800 - 1,200 9260
A CLOISONNÉ OVERLAY AND LACQUERED WOOD HANGING
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PROFESSOR PANEL
STANFORD S. PENNER 20th century
The black lacquer ground painted in gilt with landscape motifs and
9257 overlaid with metal plaques inlaid with various colored enamels that
A CINNABAR LACQUER DISH depict nine auspicious peaches hanging from a gnarled tree and two
Republic period cranes standing on a rock amid lingzhi fungus, the top of the wood
Of hexafoil form with red lacquer applied over a metal body visible frame mounted with yellow metal hangers.
along the rim, flower and leaf sprays filling the cavetto and beauties 36 1/2 x 47 1/8in (93 x 119.7cm) dimensions of frame
and children at play in an elaborate garden pavilion complex across
the floor; the exterior walls carved with bats among clouds, the US$3,000 - 5,000
base decorated with the Eight Buddhist Treasures (ba jixiang) with a
Daqing Qianlong nianzhi metal cast mark. PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY OF LESTER KNOX LITTLE,
13in (33cm) diameter LATE INSPECTOR GENERAL, CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS
SERVICE, ACQUIRED IN CHINA PRIOR TO 1949
US$1,000 - 1,500
9261
PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS A LACQUERED WOOD AND HARDSTONE EMBELLISHED
FOUR-PANEL TABLE SCREEN
9258 Republic period
A LAC BURGAUTÉ CIRCULAR SAUCER The black lacquer ground covering the wood core of each panel
17th century painted in gilt with landscape motifs surrounding figures, rocks and
Finely decorated with a scholar and his attendant carrying a qin architecture worked in various colored stones and mother-of-pearl
under a leafy tree in a garden setting, within border panels of (chips, wear to lacquer).
flowering and blossoming branches on geometric pattern grounds, 13 3/4 x 47 1/4in (35 x 120cm)
the two-character mark inlaid to the base reading qianli (losses,
cracks). US$1,500 - 2,500
5in (12.5cm) diameter
US$800 - 1,200
Jiang Qianli was a renowned craftsman specializing in inlaid lacquer,
traditionally thought to have lived in the late Ming period, and his mark
subsequently appeared on numerous inlaid lacquer pieces.
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