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PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE The design can be compared to two other mid-Ming dynasty examples
COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER in the Palace Museum, Beijing, one, a box carved with scholars
gathering in a courtyard with trees and rockwork, the other, a tray with
119 scholars below pine pointing to a figure seated in a pavilion beyond,
A CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER ‘SCHOLAR’S EXCURSION’ illustrated by Zhu Jiajin and Xia Gengqi, Zhongguo qiqi quanji. Ming
[Lacquer treasures from China. Ming dynasty], vol. 5, Fujian, 1997,
RECTANGULAR BOX AND FLAT COVER
Ming Dynasty, 16th Century p. 66, pl. 64 and p.77, pl. 77, respectively.
The cover carved in relief with a delightful lakeside setting depicting a
scholar in the foreground clutching a staff and crossing a simple rustic For another sixteenth century large cinnabar lacquer rectangular box
bridge with his young attendant following close behind weighed down and cover also carved with a scholar and attendants preparing a
by picnic apparatus, all surrounded by mighty craggy rocks and trees picnic in a rustic lakeside setting with craggy rockwork and trees all
including a willow, maple and others, in the near distance a boy sits on set on a multi-cell ground, with the vertical sides similarly carved with
a balcony before a large screen and other furniture on the balcony of flowering peony registers, see Sotheby’s, New York, 14 September
a pavilion in the distance, all set within a plain border, the deep vertical 2016, lot 349.
sides of the cover carved in deep-relief with a single register of tree
peony on a cell ground, the box with a simple broad flat foot ring and For a cinnabar rectangular tray differing in composition but stylistically
plain black-lacquered base with vertical rectangular sides that slide similar, see Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3083, where
inside the cover. it is compared in style and decorative design on a box and cover in
10 x 9 x 3in (25.4 x 22.8 x 7.6cm) the Kaisendo Museum, Yamagata prefecture, Japan, illustrated in the
exhibition catalogue, Carved Lacquer, Tokugawa and Nezu Museums,
$6,000 - 8,000 1984, p. 110, no. 151.

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