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A RARE THREE-COLOR CINNABAR LACQUER Compare a closely related box and cover, also inscribed with
‘DRAGON’ SQUARE BOX AND COVER both Qianlong and Shuanglong baohe marks, sold Christie’s
QIANLONG MARK AND PERIOD New York, 19th March 2009, lot 590. A further box of the same
shape and design, incised and gilt with a Qianlong mark only,
square section with canted corners, the cover deeply and nely in the National Palace Museum was included in the exhibition
carved with a two confronted ve-clawed dragons in pursuit Carving the Subtle Radiance of Colors. Treasured Lacquerware
of a ‘ aming pearl’ enclosing a shou character, amidst ames in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2008, cat. no. 136; and
and ruyi-form cloud scrolls and above ve peaks rising from an unmarked box of the same form and design, illustrated in
turbulent waves, framed by keyfret and lappet borders, the B. J. St. M. Morgan, ‘Carved Lacquer in the Krolik Collection’,
sides carved with rectangular cartouches enclosing the ‘Eight Oriental Art, vol. XIII, no. 4, Winter 1967, p. 251, g. 7, sold
Daoist Emblems’ amidst clouds, and interspersed with the twice in our London rooms, rst on 24th February 1970, lot 85,
‘Eight Buddhist Emblems’ on a green and ochre diaper ground, and again, 29th October 1982, lot 247.
the base incised and gilt with a six-character Qianlong mark,
the inside of the cover with a four-character gilt- lled inscribed The four-character Shuanglong baohe mark is also found on
Shuanglong baohe (double dragon treasure box) mark (2) a circular tiered box and cover included in the Hong Kong
Width 7½ in., 19 cm Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, 2000 Years of Chinese
Lacquer, Art Gallery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993,
cat. no. 77.
$ 60,000-80,000
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