Lot 3012
3012
A RARE IMPERIAL CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER TREASURE BOX AND STAND
A RARE IMPERIAL CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER TREASURE BOX AND STAND
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A RARE IMPERIAL CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER TREASURE BOX AND STAND

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE IMPERIAL CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER TREASURE BOX AND STAND
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The square box is carved on the top with a wan symbol centred with a shou roundel. The black-bordered angular fret pattern is carved with the Eight Daoist Emblems amidst bats and shou plaques on a diaper-ground. Each of the four sides of the box with two diaper-ground panels centred with gilt-metal handles shaped as bats, each right-hand panel opening to reveal a drawer. All raised on a separate square stand with key-fret borders and scroll feet at the corners.
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) square

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Lot Essay

See a related jade-inlaid zitan square treasure box of similar composition but larger in size, also dated Qianlong period, in the Beijing Palace Museum Collection, in which the drawers were comparted to store snuff bottles, illustrated in Classics of the Forbidden City: The Imperial Packing Art of Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2007, p.162 (fig. 1). A slightly smaller box was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong 29 November 2005, lot 1568.

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