A RARE MING BLACK LACQUER TIERED BOX AND COVER

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A RARE MING BLACK LACQUER TIERED BOX AND COVER
16TH CENTURY OR EARLIER

The square box with indented corners and concave side, carved from the thick black lacquer with three red layers tixi to the sides of the seven trays and the cover with borders of pommel scroll between raised bands, the rounded base tappering to the ribbed foot with an addition row of pommel, the cover with a central florette surrounded by rows of intersperced dot and pommels (age cracks, minor losses, some restoration to corners)--13 3/8in. (34cm.) high

Lot Essay

It is interesting to compare the shape of this box to an equally rare 14th century blue and white tierred and lobed porcelain box, comprising four sections, illustrated and discussed by Margaret Medley 'Fourteenth Century Blue and White Chinese Box', Oriental Art, Winter, 1973, vol. XIX, no. 4, pp.433-437, where she also illustrates a tierred lacquer box from the tomb of Jen Jen-fa, dated to before A.D. 1351, and a silver box from the Hofei hoard, which included a vase dated A.D. 1333

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