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TWO GILT BLACK LACQUER BOXES AND COVERS A LARGE PAINTED AND INCISED BROWN LACQUER
17th century OCTAGONAL BOX AND COVER
One a square seal box with a landscape painted to the top and brown Late 18th century
lacquer to the interior, wire panels to the sides; the other a scholars incised and painted with a large roundel of leafy peony heads within
box with various interior sections and metal thread panels with a ruyi-head surround itself bordered at the octagonal edges with
geometric design between gilt swastika-cell ground at the edges. composite floral sprays of magnolia, chrysanthemum, prunus, and
6 ¼ x 6 ¼ x 6 ¾in (15.9 x 15.9 x 17.1cm), the square seal box; 12 ½ x begonia, the vertical sides of the cover with various fruit and flower
6 x 7in (31.7 x 15.2 x 17.8cm), the scholar box (2). panels above a stylized key-pattern band on the sides of the box,
supported on eight small truncated ball feet, the interior with nine black
$1,800 - 2,500 lacquer shaped trays.
13 ½in (34.3cm) across
十七世紀 黑漆描金盒蓋兩件
$1,200 - 1,800
For a seal box with a very similar silver-wire basket-weave panel,
of checker and twilled weave, producing a pattern of connected 十八世紀晚期 漆繪牡丹花卉紋盒蓋
swastikas, see James C.Y. Watt, The Sumptuous Basket, Chinese
Lacquer with Basketry Panels, China House Gallery, China Institute in
America, New York, 1985, pp. 64-65, no. 18.

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