A RARE IMPERIAL CINNABAR LACQUER THREE-TIERED SCHOLAR'S BOX AND STAND
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A RARE IMPERIAL CINNABAR LACQUER THREE-TIERED SCHOLAR'S BOX AND STAND

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A RARE IMPERIAL CINNABAR LACQUER THREE-TIERED SCHOLAR'S BOX AND STAND
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Ingeniously composed of a removeable main box modelled to imitate a bound square album with the vertical edges simulating the pages, the upper surface set with two stacked book-form and two scroll-form containers, the surfaces decorated with cinnabar lacquer elaborately carved to replicate a brocade design, the edges defined with gilt-metal borders, all the interior with black lacquer, supported on a separate waisted stand with four cabriole legs (some restoration)
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) high

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A lacquer box constructed in this same format is illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Carved Lacquer Ware in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, 1971, no. 40; and a closely related three-tiered box with three scrolls set above a rectangular book from the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, was included in the exhibition, Qing Legacies: The Sumptuous Art of Imperial Packaging, Macau Museum of Art, 2000, illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 70, no. 2. Compare also this form of brocade design on a carved box imitating a bound album, in the Tianjin Art Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo Qiqi Quanji, vol. 6, Qing, Fujian meishu chubanshe, no. 221.

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