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A RED LACQUER FLORAL SHAPED BOX
16TH/17TH CENTURY
Finely carved to the cover with nine peaches, three on the flat top and six around the lobed sides, the naturalistically rendered fruit infilled with a wan-emblem ground issuing from crisply cut curled leafy flowering branches reserved on a diaper ground, the box with a key-fret border around the base and a single lotus flower medallion to the bottom (edges with minor restoration)--3 1/8in. (8cm.) wide, box
16TH/17TH CENTURY
Finely carved to the cover with nine peaches, three on the flat top and six around the lobed sides, the naturalistically rendered fruit infilled with a wan-emblem ground issuing from crisply cut curled leafy flowering branches reserved on a diaper ground, the box with a key-fret border around the base and a single lotus flower medallion to the bottom (edges with minor restoration)--3 1/8in. (8cm.) wide, box