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COLLECTION COLLECTION
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A CINNABAR LACQUER SMALL CYLINDRICAL BOX AND A CINNABAR LACQUER SMALL CYLINDRICAL BOX AND
COVER COVER
15th century Late Ming dynasty, 16th century
The cylindrical box carved to the top with two scholars beneath a The cylindrical cover very deeply carved in unusal high relief with a
maple tree below clouds and near rockwork and lightly suggested coastal or lakeside scene with a figure crossing a bridge to a group
bamboo which borders the scene, a small thatched hut on a of buildings in which sit two further figures, all set amongst rocky
promontory below a moon behind them, the slightly rounded vertical outcrops and trees receeding to the distance with a small hut on a
sides of the box and cover each carved with a single wide band of promontory, the slightly rounded vertical sides of the box and cover
key-pattern, the red lacquer continuing over the narrow rounded foot each with a single T-pattern band, the red lacquer contiuing over the
ring, the base and interiors black lacquered. rounded foot rim, the base and interiors black lacquered.
3 3/8in (8.6cm) diameter, silk bag, Japanese wood box 3 1/4in (8.2cm) diameter, cloth wrap, Japanese wood box
$3,000 - 5,000 $2,500 - 4,500

十五世紀 剔紅人物圖圓盒蓋 明晚期 十六世紀 剔紅山水人物圖圓盒蓋

For a slightly smaller circular box and cover with identical decoration See James C.Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer,
to the sides and a landscape scene with figures gazing at the moon, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum
see Christie’s, Hong Kong, 26-27 September 1989,lot 1570. It bears a of Art, New York, 1991, p. 107, no. 42, for another late Ming dynasty
Xuande mark. Another tiered box, with a similar scene is illustrated in box and cover which can be compared favorably in shape and
Gugong bowuyuan Cang Diauxi (Carved Lacquer in the Collection of technique and which has very similar key-pattern decoration on the
the Palace Museum), Beijing, 1985, no. 63. sides.

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