AN UNUSUAL CARVED RED LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The center of the cover decorated with a scene of a portly scholar holding a hu tablet crossing a bridge towards a woman sitting on the terrace of a pavilion while two attendants pick lotus blossoms in the lake below, within narrow key-fret and petal lappet borders above a band of formal foliate arabesques alternating with various flowers, the sides of the box similarly decorated but with different flowers, with black-lacquered interior and base
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) diam., box
AN UNUSUAL CARVED RED LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The center of the cover decorated with a scene of a portly scholar holding a hu tablet crossing a bridge towards a woman sitting on the terrace of a pavilion while two attendants pick lotus blossoms in the lake below, within narrow key-fret and petal lappet borders above a band of formal foliate arabesques alternating with various flowers, the sides of the box similarly decorated but with different flowers, with black-lacquered interior and base
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) diam., box
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