Lot 2099
2099
A SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND GOLD FOIL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER CUSHION-FORM BOX AND COVER
A SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND GOLD FOIL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER CUSHION-FORM BOX AND COVER
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A SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND GOLD FOIL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER CUSHION-FORM BOX AND COVER

18TH-19TH CENTURY

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A SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND GOLD FOIL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER CUSHION-FORM BOX AND COVER
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The cover is decorated in the center with a roundel of a bird perched in a prunus branch, surrounded by four roundels of flowers, all above four further roundels of flowers on the box, and all reserved on a fine diaper ground. The interior of the cover is inlaid with a fruiting peach sprig, and the interior of the box with a butterfly. A two-character mark, Qianli, within a square, is inlaid in mother-of-pearl on the slightly concave base.
1 5/8 in. (4.3 cm.) diam., lacquer box and cover, Japanese wood box

Lot Essay

Compare the larger (7.15 cm. wide) mother-of-pearl and gold foil-inlaid lacquer covered box with a Qianli mark, of fluted, lobed hexagonal shape, illustrated by G. Tsang and H. Moss in the exhibition catalogue, Arts from the Scholar's Studio, Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1986, pp. 168-69, no. 144. Like the present covered box, the decoration includes diaper pattern, and small fruiting branches on the interior, but the circular Qianli mark, also in seal characters, is inlaid in gold rather than mother-of-pearl. According to the catalogue entry, Jiang Qianli was a late Ming or Kangxi period lacquerer. The Qianli mark, however, continued to be used on small inlaid lacquer wares throughout the Qing dynasty.

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