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Lot Essay
See footnote to Lot 55.
A very similar food box of this shape and design is illustrated in East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, pl. 12, where the author states that "it is quite possible that this style [of carved decoration] had its beginning in the fourteenth century, at the end of the Yuan period." and cites a very similar example in the Nanjing Museum, "much damaged and showing a thin core and fabric foundation, which was reportedly found at a Yuan site." An octagonal lobed box is illustrated ibid., pl. 13.
A very similar food box of this shape and design is illustrated in East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, pl. 12, where the author states that "it is quite possible that this style [of carved decoration] had its beginning in the fourteenth century, at the end of the Yuan period." and cites a very similar example in the Nanjing Museum, "much damaged and showing a thin core and fabric foundation, which was reportedly found at a Yuan site." An octagonal lobed box is illustrated ibid., pl. 13.