QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A CARVED RED AND BLACK LACQUER PAVILION-FORM BOX
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The elaborate box is made in four sections, possibly to hold a scholar's writing materials or incense. The stand is carved with flower scroll and has a balustrade around the sides that encloses a separate tray carved around the sides with inverted lappets. Atop this is a pavilion-like box with ten posts on each side supporting a flared roof above a central room carved around the sides with panels decorated with the flowers of the twelve seasons and fitted at one end with two long drawers. The whole is surmounted by a removable metal brush tray set within a further balustrade.
11¾ in. (30 cm.) high, 17 7/8 in. (45.4 cm.) long, 7½ in. (19 cm.) deep

Provenance

Fong Chow (1923-2012) Collection, New York.

Exhibited

On loan: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1960.

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Lot Essay

A similar 'incense box' dated to the middle of the Qing dynasty, in the collection of the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo Qiqi Quanji, vol. 6, Beijing, 1993, pl. 217. See, also, the similar example sold at Christie's New York, 22-23 March 2012, lot 1709. Both of these examples had a cover in the shape of a roofed upper storey, that is now missing from the present box.

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