A SMALL RED LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER

15TH/16TH CENTURY

细节
A SMALL RED LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
15th/16th Century
The top deeply carved with leafy branches bearing lychee and other fruit carved with various diapers, reserved on a ground of "star-burst" pattern, the bottom carved with conforming design, the interior lacquered black
2in. (7cm.) across

拍品专文

A number of examples of these circular boxes with lychee decoration have been published. A comparable piece in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm is illustrated by Sir Harry Garner, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, p. 129, no. 64; another in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is illustrated by George Kuwayama in Far Eastern Lacquer, Los Angeles, 1982, p. 80, no. 21; a third, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is included in the Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Lacquerware, 1981, no. 25