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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART
ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE
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A SMALL CARVED RED LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER A similar red lacquer box carved with leafy peonies on an ochre ground, in
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY the Tokugawa Art Museum, is illustrated in Karamono, Imported Lacquerwork
–Chinese, Korean and Ryukyuan (Okinawa), Nagoya, Japan, 1997, no. 53,
The cover and the sides of the box are well carved wih leafy peony blossoms.
where it is dated Ming dynasty, 15th century. Like the current box, and the
The base is lightly inscribed with the signature Zhang Cheng zao (made by
following box, lot 962, carved with chilong, the Tokugawa box bears the
Zhang Cheng).
signature of Zhang Cheng, a master lacquer artist from the district of Xitang
2æ in. (7 cm.) diam.
in Jiaxing that worked during the late Yuan period. Zhang Cheng was first
mentioned together with contemporary lacquer artist, Yang Mao, in the
$20,000-30,000 connoisseur's handbook Gegu Yaolun, published in 1388, and translated by
Sir Percival David, Chinese Connoisseurship, London, 1971.
PROVENANCE:
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts,
acquired prior to 1910.
斯普菲博物館珍藏，拍賣收益將用於藏品購藏及維護
明十五世紀 剔紅牡丹紋小圓蓋盒
來源:
史喬沃先生（1832-1923），斯普林菲爾德，麻薩諸塞州，入藏於1910年以前。

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