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PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE For a taller side table with a purple-red lacquered top panel painted
COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER with flowers and grasses from the Qing Court Collection, see
Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji (Complete
144 Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum) Furniture of the
A QING RED LACQUER AND PAINTED LOW Ming and Qing Dynasties (II), Hong Kong, 2002, p. 133, no. 118.
For a red lacquered chest from the southern Shanxi region dated
RECTANGULAR STAND
18th Century to the 17th century and painted in a similar fashion and color
Painted to the top with two long-tailed birds, possibly bulbul, combinations, although a different subject, see Liu Chuansheng,
baitouweng, amidst rockwork and flowering camillia or hollyhock Classical Chinese Lacquered Furniture, Beijing, 2013, pp. 290-
within a border of flowers and melon, with further flower-heads, 291, no. 54.
tendrils, grasses and fruit to the shaped apron and legs which
stand on a simple strut support. For an extraordinarily early red lacquer table attributed to the sixth
15 3/4 x 10 1/2 x 3in (40 x 26.6 x 7.6cm) century and which became a standardized form for so many later
low tables and a type which shares great similarity in profile to
ours, see Lee Yu-kuan, Oriental Lacquer Art, New York and Tokyo,
$2,500 - 4,000 1972, p. 292, no. 222.

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