A RARE EARLY MING CINNABAR LACQUER BOX AND COVER
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A RARE EARLY MING CINNABAR LACQUER BOX AND COVER

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A RARE EARLY MING CINNABAR LACQUER BOX AND COVER
XUANDE INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

The top of the cover carved and incised through layers of lacquer with budding and blossoming peonies among dense leafy stems to a yellow-ground, the side of the box and cover similarly carved with a mixed floral frieze comprising blossoming lotus, peony, chrysanthemum and mallow, the recessed base and interior lacquered black, the incised and gilt reign mark in a vertical line at the inner left side of the footrim
4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm.) diam., box

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Previously sold in these Rooms, The Imperial Sale, 27 April 1997, lot 23.

Compare the smaller box inscribed with a Xuande four-character mark from the Carl Kempe Collection, included in the exhibition, Chinesesische Lackarbeiten, Linden Museum, Stuttgart, 1988, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 36, together with a similar Yongle-marked example.

A smaller comparable carved with a single poeny, but without a mark, from Sir Harry and Lady Garner collection was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1957, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 230. A related box carved with camellia sprays dated to 15th century in the Victoria and Albert Museum, is illustrated by H. Garner, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, fig. 32.

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