CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, MARQUE INCISEE A SIX CARACTERES ET EPOQUE YONGLE (1403-1424)

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PETITE BOITE CIRCULAIRE COUVERTE EN LAQUE ROUGE SCULPTEE
CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, MARQUE INCISEE A SIX CARACTERES ET EPOQUE YONGLE (1403-1424)
Le couvercle est finement sculpté d'une pivoine épanouie aux larges pétales dans son feuillage, les côtés sont ornés d'une bande de pivoines écloses. La marque impériale verticale à six caractères est incisée à la droite de la base.
Diamètre : 5.3 cm. (2 1/8 in.)

Provenance

The Sada Family Collection, Japan. The Sada Family had a tea business during the early 19th century.

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Further details

A SMALL CARVED RED LACQUER CIRCULAR 'PEONY' BOX AND COVER
CHINA, MING DYNASTY, YONGLE INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1403-1425)

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Lot Essay

This lacquer box is probably the smallest recorded example bearing a Yongle mark. Those miniature boxes were generally used for keeping rouge, or incense made as aromatic pellets, or pieces of scented wood. Compare two closely related examples held in museum collections: one in the Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya, illustrated in Imported Lacquerwork - Chinese, Korean and Ryukyuan(Okinawa), Tokyo, 1997, pl. 59; and one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in Masterpieces of Chinese Lacquer Ware, Taipei, 1971, pl. 18. A larger (10.5 cm. diam.) Yongle-marked box of the same form but decorated with mallow in the National Palace Museum is illustrated in Carving the Subtle Radiance of Colors, Taipei, 2008, no. 22, p. 44.

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