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18TH/19TH CENTURY
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A Pair of Carved Red Lacquer Peach-Form Boxes and Covers
18th/19th Century
Each carved on top with a very similar scene of three scholars conversing in a landscape, flanked by an attendant on one side and a fisherman in his boat on the other, all within a foliate and paired peach border, the sides carved with large lotus and leaf sprays, all reserved on a diaper ground; together with a red lacquer circular box and cover, 18th/19th century, well carved with an immortal flying a kite while balancing atop a toppled vase carried atop wind-blown waves, encircled by a foliate border above diaper-carved sides
11½ and 6½in. (29.2 and 16.5cm.) across (3)
18th/19th Century
Each carved on top with a very similar scene of three scholars conversing in a landscape, flanked by an attendant on one side and a fisherman in his boat on the other, all within a foliate and paired peach border, the sides carved with large lotus and leaf sprays, all reserved on a diaper ground; together with a red lacquer circular box and cover, 18th/19th century, well carved with an immortal flying a kite while balancing atop a toppled vase carried atop wind-blown waves, encircled by a foliate border above diaper-carved sides
11½ and 6½in. (29.2 and 16.5cm.) across (3)
Provenance
Nagatani, Inc.