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A WELL-CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER TABLE CABINET
A WELL-CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER TABLE CABINET
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PROPERTY FROM THE KAISENDO MUSEUM, YAMAGATA, JAPAN
A WELL-CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER TABLE CABINET

QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

细节
A WELL-CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER TABLE CABINET
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Of rectangular shape set on short tab feet, with two hinged doors to the front opening to reveal a single shelf, each door, back and side carved with panels depicting well-balanced arrangements of antiques and precious objects including flower vases, bowls of fruit, books and scholar's objects, all within keyfret borders against floral diaper grounds, the top carved with a similar panel of blossoming lotus scroll framed by stylised archaistic dragon scroll at the corners and set with a gilt metal handle with ruyi-head terminals, the interior and base lacquered black
10 1/2 x 13 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. (26.6 x 34.8 x 20 cm.), Japanese wood box
出版
Bijutsu Senshu Dai Hachi Kan, Cho Shitsu (Carved Lacquer), 1974, Fuji Art Publications, Japan, no. 68

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Compare with an 18th century stationery chest of similar dimensions carved with confronted dragons in the National Palace Museum Collection, Taipei included in the exhibition Carving the Subtle Radiance of Colors, Treasured Lacquerware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2007, illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 147, no. 153. The handle and fittings are identical to those found on the present cabinet and the use of a wide plain diaper border around the central panel also compares very closely.

Although depictions of precious objects and antiques are not often seen as a primary motif on carved lacquer, they are found on a carved polychrome lacquer kang cabinet in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing illustrated in Lacquer Wares of the Qing Dynasty, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2006, pp. 94-95, no. 65. Compare also a lobed box and cover decorated around the sides with similar arrangements of precious objects seen on the present cabinet, illustrated ibid., pp. 60-61, no. 40.