拍品 346
346
A RARE FOUR-TIERED SQUARE LACQUER BOX AND COVER
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A RARE FOUR-TIERED SQUARE LACQUER BOX AND COVER

MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

細節
A RARE FOUR-TIERED SQUARE LACQUER BOX AND COVER
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
The cover carved with a scene of two scholars playing weiqi in an open pavilion beside a lotus pond where two ducks swim near a young attendant holding a lotus flower as he approaches the pavilion on a narrow walkway, above panels of various flowers including chrysanthemum, peony, lotus and rose on the sides
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
來源
Japanese private collection.

拍品專文

Compare with two other similar mid-Ming tiered boxes: a four-tiered square version with scholars, from the Estate of Dr. Ip Yee, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 November 1984, lot 115; and a lobed hexagonal box with comparable flower scrolls on the sides, illustrated by Hu Shih-chang, Chinese Lacquer, Edinburgh, 1998, pl. 28.