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Lot Essay
The cover depicts scholars in a raft by a cliffside with pine trees and bamboo leaves. The sides of the trays and cover are carved with various types of flowers, including peony, chrysanthemum, finger citrons, prunus, begonia, and hibiscus.
The present box probably served as an inspiration for later carved cinnabar lacquer boxes of this form.
Compare with a two-tiered ingot-shaped box of Jiajing period in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum- Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2006, no.152.
The present box probably served as an inspiration for later carved cinnabar lacquer boxes of this form.
Compare with a two-tiered ingot-shaped box of Jiajing period in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum- Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2006, no.152.