- 3685
清乾隆 剔紅祥雲九龍紋大蓋盒
估價
1,500,000 - 3,500,000 HKD
招標截止
描述
- lacquer
of circular form supported on a short straight foot, the flat cover carved with a ferocious en face five-clawed dragon writhing sinuously around a 'flaming pearl', its scaly body meticulously rendered amidst dense cloud scrolls, against a ground of finely picked out tempestuous waves, surrounded by a key-fret border and two pairs of dragons soaring through cloud scrolls above crashing waves in pursuit of 'flaming pearls', all above a key-fret band encircling the rim, the exterior of the box similarly carved with two further pairs of dragons, all between two key-fret bands bordering the rim and foot, the interior and base lacquered black
拍品資料及來源
乾隆尚華麗之品,本盒型造碩大,雕飾精緻繁麗、出類拔萃,是為佳證。本盒雕龍雙目炯炯,獠牙鋒利,神態威猛,龍爪分張利落、龍鬚飄展;龍身披細鱗,穿梭祥雲,蒼勁矯健。龍遊祥雲江水浪濤之上,威武雄健,氣宇萬千。
此類大型龍紋漆盒,存世甚罕,但倫敦蘇富比曾售一類例,1996年12月17日,編號207。Dorothy and James E. Hahn 伉儷舊藏一件,尺寸與本品接近,雕江海行龍,現藏多倫多皇家安大略博物館,載錄於《The T.T. Tsui Galleries of Chinese Art》,多倫多,1996年,圖版126。清宮舊藏一剔紅飛龍宴盒,蓋雕龍捧「聖」字,左右肩上則分別雕「輔」、「弼」二字,現存北京,見《故宮博物院藏文物珍藏全集.清代漆器》,香港,2006年,圖版13。再有一例,比本盒稍大,然無回紋飾邊,售於紐約蘇富比2006年9月21日,編號66。