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Lot Essay
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.
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.