Lot 1315
1315
A LARGE CARVED RED LACQUER GLOBULAR BOX AND COVER
A LARGE CARVED RED LACQUER GLOBULAR BOX AND COVER
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A LARGE CARVED RED LACQUER GLOBULAR BOX AND COVER

MING DYNASTY, LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY

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A LARGE CARVED RED LACQUER GLOBULAR BOX AND COVER
MING DYNASTY, LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY
The top of the domed cover is carved with a scene of Xiwangmu and an attendant airborne on a cloud appearing before four of the Eight Daoist Immortals standing on a terrace, all within a circular medallion above a frieze of boys at play and a border of angular dragon scroll at the rim which is repeated on the rim of the box above a further scene of boys at play. The flared foot is encircled by a petal lappet band.
11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Rare Art, New York, late 1980s.

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Lot Essay

The present box is similar in style of decoration to another in the Qing Court collection, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of the Palace Museum - 45 - Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2006, pp. 252-53, no. 200. The combination of Xiwangmu descending to a gathering of four Daoist immortals, in the central medallion, and the well-carved 'hundred boys' motif on the sides is doubly auspicious.

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