PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PAUL AND HELEN BERNAT
FIVE CINNABAR LACQUER BOXES AND COVERS, comprising: a pair of lobed quatrefoil shape, the covers carved with landscape cartouches, the sides of the covers and bodies with flowers and foliage (cracks)--6. 1/8 in. across, 18th/19th century; a shaped circular box and gently domed cover, carved allover with prunus--7½ in. wide, impressed Jiaqing seal mark; a circular box carved on the shallow domed cover with boys playing and on the base with a traveler and attendant in a landscape (losses)--4½ in. diam.; and a pomegranate-shaped box, carved on the cover with two men and a piggyback child, the base with two bats and sprays of plantain--3½ in. wide (5)
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FIVE CINNABAR LACQUER BOXES AND COVERS, comprising: a pair of lobed quatrefoil shape, the covers carved with landscape cartouches, the sides of the covers and bodies with flowers and foliage (cracks)--6. 1/8 in. across, 18th/19th century; a shaped circular box and gently domed cover, carved allover with prunus--7½ in. wide, impressed Jiaqing seal mark; a circular box carved on the shallow domed cover with boys playing and on the base with a traveler and attendant in a landscape (losses)--4½ in. diam.; and a pomegranate-shaped box, carved on the cover with two men and a piggyback child, the base with two bats and sprays of plantain--3½ in. wide (5)