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MING DYNASTY 16TH/17TH CENTURY
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A SMALL CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
MING DYNASTY 16TH/17TH CENTURY
Deeply carved on the top with a boy preparing to pick a blossom from a flowering potted orchid, beside rockwork on a geometric ground, the sides of the box and cover with key-fret bands, the interior and underside black lacquered, the base with a spurious Xuande six-character mark in gilt
2½ in. (6.3 cm.) diam.
MING DYNASTY 16TH/17TH CENTURY
Deeply carved on the top with a boy preparing to pick a blossom from a flowering potted orchid, beside rockwork on a geometric ground, the sides of the box and cover with key-fret bands, the interior and underside black lacquered, the base with a spurious Xuande six-character mark in gilt
2½ in. (6.3 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Christie's London, 27 November 1967, lot 110
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3-4 May 1994, lot 287
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3-4 May 1994, lot 287
Exhibited
Geneva, at the Galleries of the Baur Collection, Exhibition of One Man's Taste, Treasures from the Lakeside Pavilion, 1988-9, Catalogue no. L 18
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium