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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART
ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE
962
A RARE CARVED RED LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY
The cover is carved with two confronting chilong, one grasping a lingzhi stem
in its mouth, reserved on a scroll ground. The sides of both box and cover are
carved with lingzhi stems. The base is lightly inscribed with the signature
Zhang Cheng zao (made by Zhang Cheng).
2√ in. (7.3 cm.) diam.
$30,000-50,000
PROVENANCE:
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts,
acquired prior to 1910.

A red lacquer box of larger size (23.5 cm. diam.) carved with similarly
(cover)
rendered chilong and lingzhi, in the Palace Museum, Bejing, is illustrated in
Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties –45 –The Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2006, pp. 41-1, no. 25.
For a discussion of the master lacquer artist Zhang Cheng, whose signature
is lightly incised on the base of the present box, see the note to lot 961.
斯普菲博物館珍藏，拍賣收益將用於藏品購藏及維護
明十五/十六世紀 剔紅螭龍紋小圓蓋盒
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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