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PROPERTY FROM THE ROBERT AND MEE-DIN MOORE
COLLECTION
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A MASSIVE GILT-PAINTED BLACK LACQUER RECTANGULAR
BOX AND FLAT COVER
Probably 17th century
The flat cover delicately painted in sepia and gilt tones with a lone
fisherman in an extensive lakeside landscape scene shaded with
willows pines, the sides of the box and cover with red-lacquered
basket-weave panels set within key-pattern borders.
29 3/4 x 11 1/2in (75.6 x 29.2cm)

$5,000 - 7,000
或為十七世紀 黑漆描金繪山水圖盒蓋

For a similar late Ming dynasty box dated to 1633, see Klaus J Brandt,
Chinesische Lackarbeiten, Linden Museum, Stuttgart, 1988, pp. 150-
151, no. 99.

Another of comparable size dated to the seventeenth century is
illustrated by James C.Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian
Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 1991, pp. 142-143, no. 66.

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