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A rare large cinnabar lacquer 'Hundred Boys, Xiwangmu and Daoist Immortals' box and cover Late Ming Dynasty
4 June 2015, 10:30 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific PlaceSold for HK$525,000 inc. premium
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A rare large cinnabar lacquer 'Hundred Boys, Xiwangmu and Daoist Immortals' box and cover
Late Ming Dynasty
The top of the domed cover carved with a circular panel featuring the Queen Mother of the West with her attendant descending on a phoenix to greet four of the Eight Immortals, Zhang Guolao, Zhongli Quan, Li Tieguai and Cao Guojiu, the body further decorated with a two tiered landscape scene of boys engaging in leisurely activities, augmented by two bands of archaic chi dragon scrolls at the rim, all raised above a flaring lotus lappet foot, box.
28.5cm (11 1/4in) wide (3).
The top of the domed cover carved with a circular panel featuring the Queen Mother of the West with her attendant descending on a phoenix to greet four of the Eight Immortals, Zhang Guolao, Zhongli Quan, Li Tieguai and Cao Guojiu, the body further decorated with a two tiered landscape scene of boys engaging in leisurely activities, augmented by two bands of archaic chi dragon scrolls at the rim, all raised above a flaring lotus lappet foot, box.
28.5cm (11 1/4in) wide (3).
Footnotes
明晚期 剔紅雕漆「西王母群仙祝壽」圖蓋盒
Provenance 來源:
An American private collection acquired from Rare Art, New York in the late 1980's
美國私人收藏，於1980年代晚期購自紐約古董商Rare Art
Compare a related octagonal lobed lacquer box and cover from the Qing Court Collection, with similar angular archaistic dragon scrolls at the rim, foot with lotus lappets, and also decorated with Daoist Immortals, illustrated in Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2006, pp.252-253, no.200.
The present lot would have been one of a pair, and the accompanying box and cover would have been carved with the same decorative bands to the rims and foot, but would feature Shoulao with a deer and the other four Daoist Immortals (Lan Caihe, He Xiangu, Han Xiangzi and Lu Dongbin) on the top. Such boxes were meant to be auspicious vessels for offerings, wishing the illustrious recipient long life and plentiful offspring, which in the imperial context would have been understood to wish the emperor long life and continuity of the dynasty.
清宮舊藏一件明晚期剔紅八仙圖葵瓣式盒可資比較，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集：元明漆器》，香港，2006年，頁252至253，編號200。
此漆盒或原為一對，盒上雕八仙人物包括張果老、鍾離權、李鐵拐和曹國舅為西王母祝壽，相信八仙中的其餘四位神仙（藍采和、何仙姑、韓湘子及呂洞賓）雕刻在另一件漆盒上。此類漆盒有祝壽之意，也有多子多福，子孫綿延的吉祥象徵。