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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 RED LACQUER AND ENGRAVED GILT (QIANGJIN) A BLACK AND RED LACQUER BASKET-WEAVE DOMED
LACQUER DISH SQUARE BOX AND COVER
Early-mid 17th Century Early-mid 17th Century
Painted in a circular medallion at the center with two scholar’s in a Painted with two cats amidst a host of flowering plants including
pine landscape surrounded by a band of whorls below a basket- peony, chrysanthemum and nandina set within four red-lacquered
weave design at the cavetto which extends to the rim, the exterior red basket-weave panels on the domed sides and mirrored on the two-
lacquered, the base with a painted character ban, (made), below an tiered box below and bordered by grooved bands and gilt decoration,
obscured inscription. the base painted with a two-character inscription, de ye, (which can be
5 1/4in (13.3cm) diameter read as ‘Tis the heart’).
7 1/2in (19cm) across
$700 - 900
$3,500 - 5,500
十七世紀早至中期 戧金松下高仕圖盤
十七世紀早至中期 漆繪狸貓圖盒蓋

For other examples of similar form but with varying decoration, see
James C.Y. Watt, The Sumptuous Basket: Chinese Lacquer with
Basketry Panels, China Institute in America, New York, 1985. For an
example dated to 1610 in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas
City, see Sheila Riddell, Dated Chinese Antiquities, London and
Boston, 1979, p.219, where she also illustrates another dated to 1620
in the British Museum. See also Zhu Jiajin and Xia Gengqi, Zhongguo
qiqi quanji, Ming ( Lacquer treasures from China, Ming Dynasty). vol. 5,
Fujian, 1997, p.198, pl.184, for an example without the central section.
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