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Lot Essay
Such important carved red lacquer boxes are extremely rare. Compare the current one to a Qianlong circular dragon box slightly smaller from the Royal Ontario Museum, D. and J.E. Hahn Collection, Splendour of Ancient Chinese Art, Selections from the Collections of T.T.Tsui Galleries of Chinese Art Worldwide, Hong Kong 1996, ill.114, and another of different shape and of smaller size, from the Herbig-Haarhaus Museum in Cologne and illustrated in H. Munsterberg, Art of the Far East, West Germany 1968, p.203
See also the 'Nine Dragon' box we sold in these Rooms, 23 November 2004, lot 118
See also the 'Nine Dragon' box we sold in these Rooms, 23 November 2004, lot 118