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A TWO-TIERED CINNABAR LACQUER CANTED SQUARE BOX For another tiered box that can be favorably compared to ours and
AND COVER also dated to the 16th century, see Priestley & Ferraro, Chinese
16th century Art, The Deeper Picture, Early Chinese Carved Cinnabar Lacquer,
The cover with indented corners and carved in relief with a scholar London, 2017, no. 8. Like ours it has indented (canted) corners and
seated on a rocky outcrop and looking out at a waterfall that cascades a rustic willow landscape with a human figure. The sides too, are
in frothy waves below his feet, his assitant nearby holding a food carved deeply with floral scrolls to an orange-brown layer beneath.
bowl under a willow, the scene set on a neat horizontally-lined cell The authors also cite a closely-related box and cover in the Brooklyn
ground, the sides of the cover and the two tiers of the box are carved Museum (accession number 88.198), that like our box, has a similar
with composite leafy bands of prunus, chrysanthemum, peony, and arrangement of floral scrolls around the sides. The cover has a figure
possibly hibiscus all silhouetted on a yellow-brown lacquer ground, of the immortal Fang Dongshou beneath a peach tree.
the flat base and interiors lacquered black.
2 1/4in (5.3cm) high
$5,000 - 8,000

十六世紀 剔紅高仕圖盒蓋

Provenance:
The Estate of Alfred E. Guntermann, New Haven, CT

來源
Alfred E. Guntermann遺產, 康州紐海文

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