A RARE CARVED EARLY MING RED LACQUER BOX AND COVER

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A RARE CARVED EARLY MING RED LACQUER BOX AND COVER
INCISED XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The cover carved with a large blossoming peony spray surrounded by smaller blooms, buds and leaves, the sides of the box and cover with continuous flowering scrolls with the blooms alternating full-face and in profile, the mark incised in a vertical line to the back (age cracks and minor repairs)
5 1/4 in. (13.5 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

A related Xuande box and cover was included in the Exhibition of Chinese and Associated Lacquer from the Garner Collection, British Museum, London, 1973, Catalogue, no. 35, pl. 16b.

Cf. a similar box and cover of similar proportions sold in these Rooms, The Imperial Sale, 27 April 1997, lot 23.

(US$35,000-40,000)

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