拍品 292
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A FINE LATE MING BLACK AND GILT LACQUER SQUARE BOX AND COVER, resting on a narrow lacquered base, the hinged cover painted with a five-clawed full-faced dragon, the eyes inlaid with mother-of-pearl, pursuing a flaming pearl, within diaper-pattern and cloud scrolls and above crashing waves and craggy peaks, the sides decorated with rampant dragons in ogival panels between flower meanders (gilt rubbed, surface restored),

细节
A FINE LATE MING BLACK AND GILT LACQUER SQUARE BOX AND COVER, resting on a narrow lacquered base, the hinged cover painted with a five-clawed full-faced dragon, the eyes inlaid with mother-of-pearl, pursuing a flaming pearl, within diaper-pattern and cloud scrolls and above crashing waves and craggy peaks, the sides decorated with rampant dragons in ogival panels between flower meanders (gilt rubbed, surface restored),

gilt Wanli six-character mark and of the period
37cm. wide

拍品专文

During the Wanli period, for the first time surface gold-painted Imperial quality lacquers were commissioned. Many are of large size: chests, boxes, domed coffers. See F. Low-Beer, Chinese Lacquer of the Middle and Late Ming Period, B.M.F.E.A., no.24, fig.105, for a cabinet; and for the pair of chests in the Newark Museum, see the China Institute in America, Catalogue, no.25. Other examples have been published by Sir H. Garner, Chinese Lacquer, pp.195-202, for a drug cabinet in Beijing, and a wardrobe in the Museé Guimet; and the Tokyo National Museum, Oriental Lacquer Arts, 1977, figs.518-9