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A RARE CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER A CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER
TOOL VASE A MOULDED CINNABAR LACQUER BOX PEACH-FORM BOX AND COVER
16th century AND COVER 18th/19th century
The small globular bottle vase deeply carved Late Qing Dynasty The lid carved with the Daoist Immortal
to the exterior with a dense pattern of peony The high domed cover moulded with a Li Tieguai holding a double-gourd in a
and day lily in a leafy meander, all reserved scholar sage in a landscape with two landscape setting, surrounded with a bat
on a finely executed star-diaper ground, attendants, surrounded with a band of border reserved on an intricate diaper ground,
Japanese wood box. interlinked bats and a dense leafy meander the box similarly decorated.
10.5cm (4 1/8in) high (2). with the ‘Three Abundances’ of peach, 13.7cm (5 3/8in) wide (2).
pomegranate and finger citron, the box
£1,000 - 1,500 similarly decorated. 16.5cm (6 1/2in) wide (2). £2,000 - 2,500
CNY9,200 - 14,000 CNY18,000 - 23,000
HK$11,000 - 16,000 £1,500 - 2,000 HK$22,000 - 27,000
CNY14,000 - 18,000
Compare with a similarly sized carved HK$16,000 - 22,000
cinnabar lacquer vase, dated late 15th/early
16th century, sold in Christie’s Hong Kong, 1
June 2011, lot 3836

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