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A painted and gilt-decorated red lacquer box and cover, Ming dynasty, dated Chongzhen 3rd year, corresponding to 1630 | 明崇禎三年（1630年） 填漆描金蓋盒 《崇禎三年杭川張省源聯德置》款
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Property from an English Private Collection
英國私人收藏
A painted and gilt-decorated red lacquer box and cover,
Ming dynasty, dated Chongzhen 3rd year, corresponding to 1630
明崇禎三年（1630年） 填漆描金蓋盒 《崇禎三年杭川張省源聯德置》款
the base inscribed in red with Chongzhen sannian hangchuan zhang shengyuan liande zhi zheng (Dedicated by Zhang Shengyuan of Hangchuan, during the third year of Chongzhen)
Length 68 cm, 26¾ in.
Compare two boxes of this type, the first depicting a scene of reception, and the other with illustration in the central panel, from the Florence and Herbert Irving collection and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, exhibited at East Asian Lacquer from the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991-2, cat. nos 66-7. See another slightly smaller box in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in Sir Harry Garner, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, pl. 199.