Property from the Baoyizhai Collection 抱一齋珍藏
A carved cinnabar lacquer circular box and cover 17th century | 十七世紀 剔紅松下高士圖圓盒
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Property from the Baoyizhai Collection
A carved cinnabar lacquer circular box and cover
17th century
抱一齋珍藏
十七世紀 剔紅松下高士圖圓盒
the flat upper surface carved with a scholar seated under a large pine tree with a curved ruyi stalk in his hand with two attendants nearby, the landscape laden with jagged cliffs and rockwork, all against a diapered ground, the straight sides deftly carved with a composite floral scroll including prunus, chrysanthemum, peony and camellia blossoms, the box similarly carved with a leafy floral scroll, the interior and base lacquered black
24.7 cm
2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong and the Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1993, cat. no. 75.
Layered Beauty: The Baoyizhai Collection of Chinese Lacquer, Art Museum, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2010, cat. no. 49.
《中國漆藝二千年》，香港東方陶瓷學會，香港中文大學文物館，香港，1993年，編號75
《疊彩：抱一齋藏中國漆器》，香港中文大學文物館，香港，2010年，編號49
Finely carved with scholars in a landscape setting, this box is notable for the illusion of vast space which has been created through the overlapping mountains that appear to float and recede into the distance, a technique commonly employed in landscape painting.
Compare a related box of smaller dimensions similarly depicting a scholar sitting leisurely in a garden, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Anthology of Chinese Art. Ming Lacquer, vol. 5, Fuzhou, 1995, pl. 158. See also a dish carved with a scholar gazing into the distance from a pavilion, illustrated in Karamono. Imported Lacquerwork. Chinese, Korean and Ryukyuan, Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya, 1997, pl. 63; and a rectangular tray, decorated with scholars gathered in a garden, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Shanghai, 2006, pl. 193. For a prototype of this type of box see one, attributed to the Yongle period (1403-24), in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, published in Hai-wai yi-chen. Qiqi /Chinese Art in Overseas Collections. Lacquerware, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1987, pl. 108.
此盒上山水人物雕琢細緻精美，遠處山巒重疊，天、地、水三種錦紋創造了廣闊的空間的錯覺，景物的遠近虛實，仿似一幅山水畫展現於眼前，令人賞心悅目。
一件同樣飾山水人物圖但尺寸較小的剔紅盒，為北京故宮博物院所藏，見《中國漆器全集》，福州，1995年，卷5，圖版158。一件同類紋飾的小盤，見《唐物漆器：中國．朝鮮．琉球》，德川美術館，名古屋，1997年，圖版63；北京故宮博物藏一件同類紋飾的長方盤，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集．元明漆器》，香港，2006年，圖版193。此類剔紅漆盒源自明永樂朝，一永樂例藏美國三藩市亞洲藝術博物館，見《海外遺珍漆器》，台北，1987年，圖版108。
