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PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE The deeply-cut decoration which exposes the multiple layers of red,
COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER black and ochre lacquer is generally characteristic of Yuan lacquers
but does continue into the early Ming period. Another box with similar
107 carved design also employing three colors of lacquer is illustrated
A FINELY CARVED TIXI CINNABAR LACQUER THREE-COLOR in Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1989, no.
381. Another slightly larger box was sold at Christie’s, Hong Kong,
CIRCULAR SHALLOW-DOMED BOX AND COVER
Yuan/Early Ming Dynasty, 14th-15th Century 30 April 2000, lot 642, which bore the signature of Yang Mao, who is
The shallowly rounded domed cover deeply carved through multiple mentioned in the Gegu yao lun as being a pupil of Yang Hui of Xitang
layers of cinnabar, ochre and black layers with fluid swirling scrolls at the end of the Yuan dynasty.
comprising three larger scrolls with three smaller scroll tails, the exterior
sides with a single continuous register of scrolls above a simple Another similarly carved box of larger size is illustrated by Jing Pei
circular countersunk black-lacquered base, the interior similarly black Fang, Treasures of the Chinese Scholar, New York/Tokyo, 1997, p.
lacquered; with a Japanese box. 145, fig. 147. The box has an inscription indicating that it was made
3in (7.6cm) diameter by a great Yuan lacquer artist, Zhang Cheng. See also James C.Y.
Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer, The Florence
and Herbert Irving Collection, New York, 1991, p. 60, no. 14, a small
$8,000 - 12,000 incense box dated 14th-16th century with the unusual inclusion of
green lacquer layers perhaps suggesting the latter end of the date
元/明早期 十四至十五世紀 剔犀如意雲紋圓盒 range indicated.

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