A Burmese Red and Black-Lacquer Massive Cylindrical Clothes Box and Cover
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A Burmese Red and Black-Lacquer Massive Cylindrical Clothes Box and Cover

LATE 19TH CENTURY/EARLY 20TH CENTUTY

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A Burmese Red and Black-Lacquer Massive Cylindrical Clothes Box and Cover
Late 19th Century/Early 20th Centuty
The molded cover with a continuous scrolling cloud band enclosing a central rosette, the sides with conforming decoration, on flaring foot
30 in. (76.1 cm) high; 35 in. (88.8 cm.) diameter
Special notice
Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

Lot Essay

Compare to another clothes box with similar Chinese-inspired cloudscroll motif in The Museum of Mankind, the Ethnology Department of the British Museum, illustrated in S. Fraser-Lu, Burmese Lacquerware, Bangkok, 1985, p. 139, fig. 157.

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