BOITE RECTANGULAIRE COUVERTE EN LAQUE NOIRE BURGAUTEE

CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, DEBUT DU XVIIEME SIECLE

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BOITE RECTANGULAIRE COUVERTE EN LAQUE NOIRE BURGAUTEE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, DEBUT DU XVIIEME SIECLE
Le couvercle orné d'un large registre à décor en incrustations de nacres, de dignitaires jouant au majong sous un grand arbre, dans un paysage de rochers et arbustes, un musicien jouant du qin et accompagné d'un serviteur assis plus loin, les arêtes, le pied et les bordures soulignés de motifs floraux ou géométriques, les côtés de la boîte et du couvercle rehaussés de cartouches en panier tressé et laqué rouge ; l'intérieur et la base laqués bruns et rouges ; accidents, manques et petites restaurations
Dimensions: 10,5 x 40,5 x 26,3 cm. (4 1/8 x 15 15/16 x 10 3/8 in.)

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A BLACK LACQUER MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER WITH BASKETRY PANELS
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

This box exhibits many characteristics of Ryukyuan lacquer works and could have been made in these Islands. As a matter of fact it includes the use of thin shells for inlays and of course the raised border enclosing basketry panels which are lacquered in red. These particular features are discussed by Sir H. Garner in his reference book, Chinese Lacquer, Faber and Faber, London 1979, pp.243-250 and pp.254-258.
See a very comparable box from the Ryukyu Islands, dated 17th/18th century and illustrated in J.C.Y.Watt and B. Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1991, pp.357-358, pl.170

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