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A ‘GURI’ LACQUER BOX AND COVER The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum:
YUAN DYNASTY Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Hong Kong,
2006, cat. no. 3. A box and cover with Zhang Cheng signature
of circular section, the cover carved in uid scrollwork and a further inscription in phagspa, the Yuan o cial script,
revealing alternating layers of red, black, yellow and green and thus rmly attributed to the Yuan dynasty, was included
lacquer, the sides similarly carved with scalloped partial in the exhibition Two Thousand Years of Chinese Lacquer, The
scrolls, the countersunk base incised with a three-character Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong and the Art Gallery,
mark ‘Zhangcheng zao’ (2) the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1993, cat.
Diameter 4½ in., 11.4 cm no. 34.
PROVENANCE Compare also a similar example smaller in size, sold in our
Hong Kong rooms, 2nd May 2005, lot 621.
Alice Boney, New York.
Ji Zhen Zhai Collection, until 2015. $ 20,000-30,000
LITERATURE Alice Boney
Fang Jing Pei. Treasures of the Chinese Scholar, New York and 2015
Tokyo, 1997, g. 147.
1997 147
Zhang Cheng is known from the Gegu yaolun [The Essential
Criteria of Antiquities] by Cao Zhao of 1388. Few other known
pieces bear the same Zhangcheng zao mark. Compare a
shallow dish at the British Museum, illustrated in Harry Garner,
Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, pls 51-52; and a dish carved
with gardenia in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in
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