A CARVED THREE-COLOR LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

细节

A CARVED THREE-COLOR LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
Qianlong period (1736-1795)
The top well carved through the red, green and yellowish layers with a large chun (spring) character incorporating a medallion of Shoulao atop multi-colored rays rising from a basket of auspicious objects and flanked by two five-clawed dragons amidst clouds, within a narrow border of classic scroll, with four panels of scholars and attendants on the shoulder separated by further auspicious symbols and reserved on a diaper ground, the sides of the box with further figural scenes, with bands of demi-diaper and ruyi scroll at the rims, the interior and base lacquered black
12¼in. (31.1cm.) diam., box

拍品专文

A similar box of Qianlong date was included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. exhibition, 2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, Art Gallery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 24 September-21 November 1993, no. 76. The Qianlong period boxes of this design were copies of Jiajing-marked examples, such as no. 61 in the same exhibition, which were much admired by the Qianlong emperor who then commissioned copies to be made. See, also, the similar box illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Carved Lacquer Ware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1971, pl. 25.