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AN UNUSUAL SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER SHALLOW HEXAGONAL BOX AND COVER
AN UNUSUAL SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER SHALLOW HEXAGONAL BOX AND COVER
AN UNUSUAL SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER SHALLOW HEXAGONAL BOX AND COVER
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AN UNUSUAL SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER SHALLOW HEXAGONAL BOX AND COVER

QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER INLAID MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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AN UNUSUAL SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER SHALLOW HEXAGONAL BOX AND COVER
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER INLAID MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The flat top of the cover is finely inlaid with a central flower head from which radiate six spiralled sections inlaid with various diaper patterns on different colored grounds that continue down onto the sloping shoulder and are repeated on the sides of the box. A pair of deer is inlaid inside the cover and a sprig of lingzhi inside the box. A Qianlong four-character mark within a gold square is inlaid on the base.
2 in. (5 cm.) wide
Provenance
C.T. Loo, New York, 24 July 1956.
Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978) Collection.

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Lot Essay


The inlay on this box is stylistically similar to that seen on a hexagonal mother-of-pearl-inlaid black lacquer box and cover illustrated by G. Tsang and H. Moss, Arts from the Scholar's Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, pp. 168-69, no. 144, which bears a Qianli rather than a Qianlong mark, and is dated probably late Ming dynasty. On both boxes the background inlay for the panels on the cover and shoulder are of a pronounced green, purple or blue color and are of three different patterns. The inlay on the interior also appears to be similar.

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