A CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER BOX AND COVER MING DYNASTY

the box and cover of conforming circular shape with rounded edges, each carved overall except for a plain rim, with the same design of a duck in flight with spread wings above dense lotus plants with three blooms and a large leaf growing among water weeds, all finely carved with delicately incised details on an ochre-yellow ground, the interior lacquered black

From the Collection of Mrs Virginia K. Chow.

One Man's Taste, Treasures from the Lakeside Pavilion, at the Galleries of the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1988-9, Catalogue no. L12.