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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART
ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE
963
A CARVED RED LACQUER BOX AND COVER
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
The circular box and cover are both mounted with gilt-metal rims, and is
carved with fruiting melons borne on vines and flower blossoms.
3æ in. (9.5 cm.) diam.
$15,000-25,000
PROVENANCE:
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts,
acquired prior to 1910.
Compare the similarly carved red lacquer box of approximately the same
size, but carved with lychees and lacking the gilt-metal rims, in the Linden-
Museum, Stuttgart, Germany, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Im
Zeichen Des Drachen, Stuttgart, 2006, p. 136, no. 55, where it is dated
Middle Ming dynasty, second half 15th- first half 16th century.
斯普菲博物館珍藏，拍賣收益將用於藏品購藏及維護
明十六世紀 剔紅瓜瓞綿綿圓蓋盒
(another view)
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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