MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY

A red lacquer box of larger size (23.5 cm. diam.) carved with similarly rendered chilong and lingzhi, in the Palace Museum, Bejing, is illustrated in Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties – 45 – The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2006, pp. 41-1, no. 25.

For a discussion of the master lacquer artist Zhang Cheng, whose signature is lightly incised on the base of the present box, see the note to lot 961.