Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
A CARVED POLYCHROME LACQUER BOX AND COVER QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD | 清乾隆 剔彩神仙圖桃式蓋盒
Auction Closed
November 6, 06:16 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A CARVED POLYCHROME LACQUER BOX AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
清乾隆 剔彩神仙圖桃式蓋盒
of peach form, the domed cover crisply carved through layers of red, green and yellow lacquer with a central panel depicting Lu Dongbin and his acolyte amongst a large overhanging tree, jagged rocks and vegetation, the sides carved with bats and cranes amidst ruyi-shaped clouds, the box similarly decorated with a further band of cresting waves, the interiors and base lacquered black
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Width 16.5 cm, 6½ in.
Compare a similar shaped cinnabar lacquer box decorated with an immortal, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum’s exhibition Masterpieces of Chinese Carved Lacquerware in the National Palace Museum, 1971, cat. no. 45.