CHINE, DYNASTIE YUAN, XIVEME SIECLE

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RARE BOITE COUVERTE EN LAQUE NOIRE ET ROUGE
CHINE, DYNASTIE YUAN, XIVEME SIECLE
De forme polylobée imitant celle d'une fleur de lotus, la boîte et le couvercle formés de registres de larges pétales finement moulés en relief et laqués noirs, le dessus du couvercle aplati, délimité par une bordure polylobée entourant un compartiment circulaire cerclé d'or et devant contenir à l'origine un médaillon en nacre sculpté ; l'intérieur et la base laqués rouges ; petits accidents, craquelures et petite restauration
Hauteur: 18,4 cm. (7¼ in.), Diamètre: 22 cm. (8 5/8 in.)

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A RARE BLACK AND RED LACQUER BOX AND COVER
CHINA, YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

A nearly identical box but still with its inlaid mother-of-pearl medallion was included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Special Exhibition catalogue, East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, New York 1992, no.3, where the authors note that boxes with lobed sides and pewter trim form a distinctive group among lacquerware of the Yuan period and that this particular form most probably was adapted from contemporaneous silver ware.
Another black lacquer box of this form and size with pewter wire borders but without the mother-of-pearl medallion is illustrated in Homage to Heaven, Homage to Earth, Chinese Treasure of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 1992, pl.15
See also a box sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 29 April 2002, lot 675 ; and another sold in our New York Rooms, 9 June 1997, lot 2.

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