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A HUANGHUALI STEELYARD CASE EARLY QING DYNASTY | 清初 黃花梨戥子盒
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October 9, 08:09 AM GMT
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Property of a Lady
A HUANGHUALI STEELYARD CASE
EARLY QING DYNASTY
清初 黃花梨戥子盒
modelled in the form of a stylised fish, comprising an upper and lower half hinged together near the tail end with a pin comprising a huangtong floral knob and a chrysanthemum-shaped plate, the lower half with recessed sections on the interior, housing a baitong and bone steelyard, the exterior of the other inlaid in metal with two characters reading Wang Ji
29.5 by 7.3 by h. 1.6 cm, 11 ⅝ by 2 ⅞ by h. ⅝ in.
Collection of Dr S.Y. Yip.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5th April 2017, lot 3519.
葉承耀醫生收藏
香港蘇富比2017年4月5日，編號3519
Grace Wu Bruce, Feast by a wine table reclining on a couch: The Dr S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture III, The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2007, pp. 176-177.
伍嘉恩，《燕几衎榻：攻玉山房藏中國古典家具》，香港中文大學文物館，香港，2007年，頁176-177
This type of miniature steelyard, contained in a beautifully grained huanghuali wood case, was used for weighing precious material and medicine.
See a similar example but lacquered in black and gold in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhu Jiajin and Xia Gengqi, eds, Zhongguo qiqi quanji [Complete book of Chinese lacquer], vol. 5: Ming, Fuzhou, 1995, pl. 152.
此盒狀似魚形，由上下兩半組成，尾端用軸釘連貫，可開可合。軸釘上有花形鈕，下墊黃銅菊花紋護眼錢。盒子下半挖缺藏骨製秤杆、白銅秤盤與砝碼。盒蓋用金屬嵌「王記」二字。
這類小型戥子，是秤量貴重物品和藥物的衡器，收納在紋理生動的黃花梨盒中，殊為別緻。北京故宮博物院藏一件與現例相似的戥子盒，但為黑漆描金，收錄於朱家溍及夏更起編，《中國漆器全集》，卷5：明，褔州，1995年，圖版152。