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ANOTHER PROPERTY PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT WASHINGTON PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A LARGE CARVED RED LACQUER 'EIGHT DAOIST IMMORTALS' A SET OF FIVE `FIVE ELDERS' INKCAKES WITHIN A FITTED BOX
CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER LATE 18TH CENTURY
19TH CENTURY Each inkcake is inscribed and gilt with a poem by the maker Hu Kaiwen,
The cover is inscribed with a two-character seal reading Kui Sheng. followed by the artist's seal. The cover is decorated with four gilt characters
reading Wulaotu mo (Five Elders inkcakes).
18q in. (47 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box
Box 9q x 5q in. (24.1 x 13.9 cm.)
$8,000-12,000
$20,000-30,000
Lu Dong (zi: Kuisheng) was a famous early nineteenth century Yangzhou
lacquerer who made items for the scholar's studio, snuff bottles and even PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Germany.
furniture. See G. Tsang and H. Moss, Arts from the Scholar's Studio, Hong
Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3877.
Kong Museum of Art, nos. 63, 64, 85 (a snuff bottle), 149, 216 and 217, where
further biographical details are given. Lu was one of the rare craftsmen who

was able to transcend the social barriers imposed by his upbringing and be 華盛頓重要私́珍藏
taken seriously by the literati as an artist, and he was one of the very few to
find a place in the literature of the scholar class. 清十Ջˠ紀末ǎ̩老圖ખˏ組̩錠
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款 Ǚ葵生ǚ 德४私́珍藏
(cover) 香港ωૈ得
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