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A PAIR OF CINNABAR LACQUER CARVED QUATRELOBED
‘DRAGON’ BOXES AND COVERS
Qianlong
Each four-lobed box and cover with straight sides rising to a flat cover
top, finely carved within the thick beaded edge with three five-clawed
dragons among tumultuous waves, in pursuit of the flaming pearl,
their features and manes finely incised, turbulent waves crashing and
foaming below, the sides with a hexagonal brocade pattern repeated
on the box, the interiors and bases lacquered black.
Each 16cm (6 3/8in) wide. (4).

£8,000 - 12,000
CNY72,000 - 110,000

清乾隆 剔紅海水龍紋海棠式蓋盒一對

Provenance:
Spink & Son Ltd., London
E. A. Parry (1879-1946), London, acquired from the above on
2 November 1921, and thence by descent

來源：
倫敦古董商Spink & Son Ltd.
倫敦E. A. Parry（1879-1946）舊藏，於1921年11月2日購自上者，
並由後人保存迄今

A related quatrelobed box and cover with similar design of dragons and
waves, Qianlong, is illustrated in The Creation of Natural Immensity and
Grandeur: The Yang Ming Shan Fang Collection of Lacquer from Song,
Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Beijing, 2020, p.176, no.53; another
related carved cinnabar lacquer quatrelobed box and cover with design
of three dragons, Qianlong six-character mark and period, is illustrated
in Carving the Subtle Radiance of Colors: Treasured Lacquerware in the
National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2008, p.133, no.132.

A related carved cinnabar lacquer ‘three-dragons’ square box and cover,
Qianlong, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 31 May 2017, lot 3237.

四瓣海棠式直壁平蓋。盒蓋凸沿內精雕三尾五爪龍，游弋於波濤之中
追逐一火珠。龍身包括背棘等種種細節刻劃精細，波濤激起浪沫，
動感十足。外壁遍飾六角錦紋，盒內及底部均髹黑漆。

參考一件清乾隆剔紅海水龍紋海棠式盒，圖見張榮主編，《巧法造
化：陽明山房藏宋元明清漆器》，北京，2020，頁176，編號53。
另件台北國立故宮博物院館藏一例清乾隆剔紅龍珠寶盒，收錄於
《和光剔彩——故宮藏漆》，台北，2008年，頁133，編號132。

香港佳士得亦曾售出一件清乾隆剔紅三龍戲珠倭角方蓋盒，2017年
5月31日，拍品編號3237，可資比對。

Lot 58 (invoice)

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