A RARE CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER FANGDING, COVER AND STAND
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A RARE CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER FANGDING, COVER AND STAND

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A RARE CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER FANGDING, COVER AND STAND
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Of rectangular section, well carved on each long side with four of the Eight Buddhist Emblems surrounded by a dense network of lotus scrolls extending to the short sides, between ruyi and trefoil bands, set with a pair of S-shaped upright handles and raised on four cylindrical legs emerging from monster-masks, the domed cover decorated with a lotus scroll, with angular scrollwork and lotus lappets encircling the gilt-metal finial surmounted by a white jade mythical beast, the rectangular stand with ruyi feet similarly carved with a lotus scroll, the upper surface with a cruciform scrollwork motif
11 1/4 in. (28.5 cm.) across the handles, box
Provenance
A Private French Collection

Lot Essay

A very similar fangding with a higher domed cover, from an altar garniture set in the Victoria and Albert Museum, is illustrated by Edward F. Strange, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1926, pls. IX and X; and another from the British Museum, mis-catalogued as late Ming, is illustrated in Oriental Lacquer, London, pl. 15. A circular tripod ding with comparable S-shaped handles, is also in the British Museum, illustrated in Hai-Wai Yi-Chen, Chinese Art in Overseas Collections, National Palace Museum, Taiwan, 1987, pl. 164; while two examples of covered fangding on stands, but with simpler upright loop handles, include one illustrated by Xu Huping, The Treasures of the Nanjing Museum, and another by Annette Juliano, Treasures of China, p. 161 (bottom right).

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