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Lot 435

A cinnabar lacquer incense box and cover
Late Ming Dynasty

13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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A cinnabar lacquer incense box and cover

Late Ming Dynasty
Of circular form, the domed cover carved with Budai seated on a rock and waving a fan above the heads of two clambering boys, approached by a third boy bearing a ruyi sceptre, all against a foliate diaper ground, the sides of the base carved with blossoming peonies against a similar ground, the interiors and base lacquered black.
8.1cm (3¼in) diam. (2).

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Compare an incense box and cover, formerly in the E.T.Chow collection and depicting the same subject matter, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 April 2005, lot 16.

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