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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 MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER THREE-TIER AN INSCRIBED AND DATED PAINTED BLACK AND RED
LACQUER AND BASKET-WEAVE CIRCULAR BOX AND
RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER
17th/18th Century DOMED COVER
The top with dense scrolling asymmetric leafy foliage centered by Qianlong cyclical date dinghai (1767) and Hall mark Guang Yu
a large incised multi-petaled flower-head, set within a cell-ground Tang (Hall of Abundant brightness)
border band, the sides with three tiers of differing sizes decorated with The circular lightly-domed cover painted in bright colors and fine
scattered single flowers, flower sprays, fruiting branches and clouds, details with white and pink prunus blossoms on a leafless spring
all within cell-ground bands. branch that rises upwards below a hanging spray of orange-red five-
13 x 7 1/2in (33 x 18.4cm) petaled blossoms on a full-leafy spray, possibly pomegranate, all on
the black lacquer ground circular panel with molded edge above a
$3,500 - 5,500 red-lacquered basket-weave wide band to the rounded sides, which
is mirrored in a thinner band on the box which is supported on a tall
cylindrical foot, the same red lacquer inscription to the cover interior
十七/十八世紀 黑漆嵌螺鈿花卉紋蓋盒 and the base.
15in (38.1cm) diameter

$3,500 - 5,500

1767年 漆彩繪梅花圖捧盒 《十六 乾隆丁亥光裕堂辦》款

For a very slightly larger basket-weave and lacquer circular box and
cover, of near identical type but painted in different shades of gilt with
figures amidst pine, see 2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, The Oriental
Ceramic Society of Hong Kong and Art Gallery, The Chinese University
of Hong Kong, 1993, pp.194-195, no. 102. It is also painted to the
underside of the cover and the base with a Qianlong inscription and it
is dated to 1741.

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