AN UNUSUAL SMALL PAIR OF CARVED RED LACQUER BOXES AND COVERS
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AN UNUSUAL SMALL PAIR OF CARVED RED LACQUER BOXES AND COVERS

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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AN UNUSUAL SMALL PAIR OF CARVED RED LACQUER BOXES AND COVERS
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each of five-petalled, prunus blossom form and finely carved, the flat top of one with a scene of two scholars conversing in a garden as an attendant approaches carrying a tray, with a walled compound and a bamboo grove in the background, the other cover with a scholar seated on a bench watching two boys at play in a garden, each scene within a key-fret border, the sides carved with diaper pattern
5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) across (2)

拍品專文

Compare the box of this unusual prunus blossom shape carved with a related scene illustrated in Zhongguo gudai diaoqi jindi yishu zhi yanjiu, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1982, p. 298.