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Lot 120 (Two views)

PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE
COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER
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A CINNABAR LACQUER TALL CYLINDRICAL BOX AND COVER A CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER ‘FOUR BUDDHIST LIONS’
Ming Dynasty, 16th Century CIRCULAR DISH
The cover of tall cylindrical shape, the flat top carved in a slightly 16th/17th Century
rounded relief with two seated scholars in discourse amidst craggy The shallow circular dish carved in very low-relief with a lightly
rockwork and old pine trees on a diaper cell ground, the tall sides ‘channelled’ design depicting four Buddhist lions encircling a large
further carved with a flowerhead diaper ground, the box with plain central ribboned ball, the ribbons securely held in their mouths and set
cylindrical sides that fits neatly inside the cover sides, lacquered red on against a dense ground of flame-like clouds and seed-like small ovals,
the exterior, foot edge and black lacquered to the interior and flat base. the rounded rim plain, the rounded exterior sides with a continuous
2 3/4in (7 cm) diameter ‘channelled’ register of various flower-heads, a black-laquered short
foot ring and plain base.
$3,000 - 5,000 6 1/16in (15.3 cm) diameter

明 十六世紀 剔紅高仕圖蓋盒 $1,200 - 1,800

For another larger 16th/17th century tiered cylindrical box in cinnabar 十六/十七世紀 剔紅獅球圖盤
lacquer also depicting a bucolic scene with a scholar amidst rockwork
and under pine on the circular flat cover, see Karamono, Imported For a near identical ‘four Buddhist lions’ dish dated to the 16th century
Lacquerwork-Chinese, Korean and Ryukyuan (Okinawa), Selections and called ‘Yunnan-type’, and also carved with composite floral scrolls
From The Tokugawa Art Museum, No. 2, Nagoya, Japan, 1997, p. 62, to the exterior, see Christie’s, Hong Kong, Important Chinese Lacquer
no. 109. from the Lee Family Collection, Part III, 28 November 2012, lot 2099.

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