CHINE, DYNASTIE YUAN, XIVEME SIECLE

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BOITE COUVERTE EN LAQUE NOIRE
CHINE, DYNASTIE YUAN, XIVEME SIECLE
De forme polylobée imitant la fleur de lotus, la boîte et le couvercle formés de registres de larges pétales moulés en relief et laqués noirs, le dessus du couvercle aplati, délimité par une bordure polylobée entourant un compartiment circulaire, l'intérieur comportant un plateau laqué rouge et noir ; parties relaquées et petites restaurations
Hauteur: 17,5 cm. (6 7/8 in.)

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

Lot Essay

A black lacquer box of this form and size with pewter wire borders is illustrated in Homage to Heaven, Homage to Earth, Chinese Treasure of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 1992, pl.15
Compare with another similar example illustrated by J.C.Y. Watt and B. Brennan Ford, in East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, pp.44 and 45, no.3
See also a box sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 29 April 2002, lot 675 ; and another sold in our Paris Rooms, 22 November 2005, lot 83.

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