Lot 51
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BOITE COUVERTE EN LAQUE ROUGE SCULPTEE
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BOITE COUVERTE EN LAQUE ROUGE SCULPTEE

CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIEME SIECLE

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BOITE COUVERTE EN LAQUE ROUGE SCULPTEE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIEME SIECLE
De forme circulaire, le couvercle et la boîte entièrement sculptés sur fond rouge et treillis losangés de branchages feuillagés et lychees, l'intérieur laqué noir ; restaurations
Diamètre: 7,3 cm. (2 7/8 in.)
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A CARVED RED LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
CHINA, MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

See a very close circular box decorated with lychees, illustrated in Sir Harry Garner, Chinese Lacquer, London 1979, p.129, pl.64
Compare with another example with same decoration and dimensions illustrated by J.C.Y. Watt and B. Brennan Ford, in East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, p.105, pl.40.

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