Boîte couverte en laque rouge sculptée, Chine dynastie Qing, époque Qianlong (1736-1795)

le couvercle sculpté en haut relief, décoré d'un médaillon central orné d'un dragon furieux à cinq griffes chassant la perle d'immortalité, les yeux exorbités et les griffes sorties, quatre dragons sur la bordure du couvercle, et quatre autres autour de la base évoluant dans un décor de vagues tumultueuses et d'enroulements de feu, les détails sculptés en laque vert et ocre, le pied et la bordure avec une frise de luiwen, l'intérieur et la base laqués noir

The box is very impressive with an excellent quality of carving. It is restored to a very high standard with age cracks secured to the cover and the base and re lacquered inner rim. Some thinner hairline age cracks are still showing vertically inside the cover as well as inside the foot rim. The colour of the cinabar lacquer is more intense and less orangey than the illustration would suggest. Please use the zoom feature on our website at www.sothebys.com/ browse catalogue to closely inspect the surface texture of the item.
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