Boite couverte en laque rouge sculptée Chine, dynastie Ming, XVE siècle

le couvercle ciselé et incisé dans les couches successives de laque rouge, jaune et noir, d'une grande pivoine et deux boutons de fleurs dans un amas de feuilles sur fond ochre, trois pivoines feuillagées sur le pourtour, boite japonaise en bois

Christie's Hong Kong, 29th April 2002, lot 678.

A box similarly decorated with a peony blossom in full bloom, from the Date Family Collection and the Shotu Chosho An Collection, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27^th May 2009, lot 1904. Compare also two slightly smaller examples, but carved in layers of cinnabar-red and olive green lacquer, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29^th November 2005, lot 1533, and the other, 28^th October 2002, lot 585, which depicts a rose.