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Lot Essay
Previously sold in Hong Kong, 17 May 1989, lot 710.
No other circular box of this design appears to be published. A smaller related Mughal-style spinach-jade bowl with a Qianlong mark and shaped like the present box, is illustrated in the Royal Ontario Museum, The T. T. Tsui Galleries of Chinese Art Catalogue, no. 127.
The thinness of the vessel, the reticulation and floral elements all recall Mughal jades; however, the Chinese lapidaries also referred to Chinese carved lacquer as inspiration when designing this large box. Each openwork panel contains Chinese figures in quotidian activities, a subject popular on carved lacquer from the early Ming dynasty through to the Qianlong period.
(US$130,000-150,000)
No other circular box of this design appears to be published. A smaller related Mughal-style spinach-jade bowl with a Qianlong mark and shaped like the present box, is illustrated in the Royal Ontario Museum, The T. T. Tsui Galleries of Chinese Art Catalogue, no. 127.
The thinness of the vessel, the reticulation and floral elements all recall Mughal jades; however, the Chinese lapidaries also referred to Chinese carved lacquer as inspiration when designing this large box. Each openwork panel contains Chinese figures in quotidian activities, a subject popular on carved lacquer from the early Ming dynasty through to the Qianlong period.
(US$130,000-150,000)