拍品 33
33
AN IMPERIAL CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER DOCUMENT BOX AND COVER

细节
AN IMPERIAL CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER DOCUMENT BOX AND COVER
QIANLONG

Finely carved in high relief to the cover with two pairs of five-clawed horned dragons and phoenixes with elaborate plumage amid a leafy peony and lotus meander reserved on a diaper ground, each face of the box similarly carved with single pairs below a lotus-scroll at the rim, the front mounted with a gilt-bronze plaque and latch finely worked with archaistic elements, repeated on the hinges to the reverse, with loose ruyi-shaped handles to either side, the interior inset with a black lacquered tray (minor losses, several fine age cracks, minor repairs)
14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm.) wide

拍品专文

Compare with a similar rectangular box from the early nineteenth century with a mountain landscape scene, now in the Naprstekovo Museum, Prague, illustrated by Derek Clifford in Chinese Carved Lacquer, pl. 111, pl. 137.

(US$22,000-30,000)