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A RARE THREE-COLOUR LACQUER CARVED DOCUMENT Provenance: a European private collection
BOX AND COVER
Qianlong 來源：歐洲私人收藏
Intricately carved on the cover with a central shou medallion encircled
by five bats, wu fu amidst blooming peonies, the front, back and side The present lot is rare in being three-coloured. Boxes of the same
panels similarly carved, the interior lacquered black and decorated form as the present example appear to have been manufactured also
with gilt floral sprigs, the sides fitted with bail handles, the front with a in zitan, since both zitan and lacquer were highly regarded at the Qing
foliate-incised rectangular lock plate and ruyi clasp. court. Compare with two similar cinnabar lacquer examples, Qianlong,
42cm (16 1/2) wide (2). which were sold at Sotheby’s New York, 13 September 2016, lot 351,
and Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 11th April 2008, lot 2864. A similarly sized
£8,000 - 12,000 and shaped zitan box, 18th century, fitted with gilt-bronze handles,
CNY71,000 - 110,000 is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum. Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, vol.4, Hong Kong,
2002, pl.235.
清乾隆 剔彩五福捧壽花卉紋寶奩

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