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A large carved cinnabar lacquer 'elegant gathering' box and cover Jiaqing
16 May 2019, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£20,000 - £30,000
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A large carved cinnabar lacquer 'elegant gathering' box and cover
Jiaqing
The cover crisply incised in the central medallion with a vividly-detailed scene of literati and their attendants engaged in the various elegant arts, under a pavilion two scholars play a game of weiqi, another gazes at a scholar at his desk painting on a fan between two admiring gentlemen, three boy-attendants gather around the stove to prepare the tea, another scholar is followed by his attendant carrying a qin, all within a mountainous landscape of various diaper grounds with gnarling pine, bamboo and wutong trees, all enclosed by a lotus-scroll band and a key-fret border and lappets, the sides with eight panels containing scenes of scholars and attendants within landscapes, on a ground of densely-scrolling lotus. 37.4cm (14 3/4in) diam. (2).
The cover crisply incised in the central medallion with a vividly-detailed scene of literati and their attendants engaged in the various elegant arts, under a pavilion two scholars play a game of weiqi, another gazes at a scholar at his desk painting on a fan between two admiring gentlemen, three boy-attendants gather around the stove to prepare the tea, another scholar is followed by his attendant carrying a qin, all within a mountainous landscape of various diaper grounds with gnarling pine, bamboo and wutong trees, all enclosed by a lotus-scroll band and a key-fret border and lappets, the sides with eight panels containing scenes of scholars and attendants within landscapes, on a ground of densely-scrolling lotus. 37.4cm (14 3/4in) diam. (2).
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清嘉慶 剔紅西園雅集圖捧盒
Compare with a related box and cover, 18th century, illustrated in Carving the Subtle Radiance of Colours: Treasured Lacquerware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2008, pl.160, p.152; and another example illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Lacquer Wares of the Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2006, pl.37, p.57.