Lot 34
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A RARE PAIR OF RED GLASS SHALLOW CIRCULAR COVERED BOXES

Details
A RARE PAIR OF RED GLASS SHALLOW CIRCULAR COVERED BOXES
18TH CENTURY

Each cover carved in shallow relief with two chilongs crawling within a bowstring border at the edge, above a pattern of alternating detached C-scrolls and bosses around the sides, the transparent glass of flame-red color shading to yellow at the rims, one with rim chips to cover--3 1/4 in. (8.2cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Compare a very similar covered box sold in these rooms June 1, 1990, part of lot 117

Possibly imitating lacquer prototypes, such as the covered circular boxes of similar design from the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, included in the exhibition of East Asian Lacquer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991, Catalogue, no. 16 and in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated by Clarence Shangraw, "Chinese Lacquers", Orientations, April, 1986, p. 30