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A carved cinnabar lacquer box and cover
Qianlong

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Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
4 December 2008, 12:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific Place

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A carved cinnabar lacquer box and cover

Qianlong
Of elongated quadrilobed form, the flat top intricately carved with a scene of Yuan dynasty painter Ni Zan, watching two of his attendants washing two wutong trees in a landscape surrounded by water, fantastic rocks, shrubs and hillocks, all against various diaper grounds, enclosed by a key-fret border, the straight sides of the box and cover carved with a honeycomb diaper pattern incorporating florettes, the base and interior lacquered black.
16.3cm (6 1/2in) long. (2).

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Ni Zan, one of China's greatest landscape painters, was known for his obsession with cleanliness. This obsession even extended to people, and he avoided contact with those he believed were unclean or vulgar. It was said that he even had his servants wash the wutong trees in his garden daily. This is the scene that is depicted on the present lot. Ni Zan sits off to the side in front of a rock. On the rock are a brushpot filled with brushes, an inkstone and a roll of paper. Ni zan watches as his two servants scrub the wutong trees, perhaps waiting for inspiration to strike.

A cinnabar lacquer lobed box with a similar motif in the collection of the Palace Museum is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Lacquer Wares of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 2006, no.8, pp. 14-15.

清乾隆 剔紅洗桐圖海棠形蓋盒

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