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A CINNABAR LACQUER CARVED ‘DRAGONS’ BOX Compare with a closely related cinnabar lacquer box, Xuande, but with
Xuande incised six-character mark, 15th century a dragon with five claws, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in
Of large circular shape, the sides deftly carved and incised in various The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Lacquer
depths of relief through the rich red cinnabar with a walking four- Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2006, pl.60.
clawed dragons in four cartouches, its grinning face framed by long
shaggy hair and a pair of long horns, its eyes detailed with irises 口沿包金，直壁，髹朱極厚，剔刻四組番蓮紋，間隔四開光，開光內剔
with black lacquer and long eyebrows staring upwards above its 刻四爪形龍紋，龍首鬃毛、雙鬚前揚，龍身矯健，鱗爪森然，底部上收
outstretched claws, its writhing scaly body walking amidst ruyi clouds, 成圈足，外底及內壁髹暗棕漆，發冰裂紋，底部靠圈足處刻「大明宣德
and carved with a lotus surrounded by four smaller lotus between 年製」楷書款。
every two cartouches, the interior and base lacquered in dark brown
and with a fine network of ice crackles, the mouth rim mounted with 北京故宮藏一件明宣德剔紅龍紋蓋盒，與本件極似，見《故宮博物院
yellow metal, the base incised with six-character mark reading Daming 藏文物大系·元明漆器》，香港，2006年，圖版60。
xuande nianzhi, box.
32cm (12 1/2in) diam. (2).

HKD300,000 - 400,000
US$51,000 - 77,000
十五世紀 宣德款剔紅龍紋盒
「大明宣德年製」刻款

Provenance:
An Asian private collection

來源:
亞洲私人收藏

Image courtesy of the Palace Museum, Beijing
北京故宮博物院藏

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