A THREE-COLOUR LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-95)

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A THREE-COLOUR LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-95)
The cover and base carved using the layers of red and green lacquer with intertwined peony branches in half and full bloom, all on a finely carved ochre diaper ground, the underside carved with hexagonal diaper patterns
6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Compare a very similarly carved cinnabar lacquer bowl and cover described as a spitton, in the Shenyang Palace Museum, illustrated by Robert L. Thorpe in Son of Heaven, Imperial Arts of China, p.96, pl. 28. For another similar bowl and cover, see Daily Life in the Forbidden City, Harmondsworth, 1988, pl. 219, where the bowl can be seen in an interior shot of one of the Imperial studios.

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