Property from Various Owners
A cinnabar lacquer rectangular covered box
Republic period
The domical cover carved across the top with scholars playing weiqi or walking with attendants through an extensive garden complex in a quatrelobed reserve framed by flower and leaf scrolls that repeat on the exterior walls supported on the shorter interior walls of the box itself simply finished in black lacquer with a red lacquer edge along the exterior base.
15in (38cm) long
Sold for
US$ 2,125
inc. premium
Category:
Asian Art
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