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PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER
A Tixi Black and cinnabar lacquer circular shallow-domed box and cover
Ming Dynasty, 15th/16th CenturyWith steep rising sides and almost flat upper surface, the cover carved in low rounded relief with three graduated rows of pommel scrolls radiating outward from a four-pointed central motif, the box with a single register of differing ruyi-shaped pommel-like scrolls above a tall foot ring, the base plain and centered by a red-lacquered number shisan (thirteen). 7in (17.7cm) diameter
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明 十五/十六世紀 剔犀如意雲紋圓盒The style of carving on our box combined with the use of only a single layer of cinnabar lacquer to highlight the design of the pommel-scrolls, can be compared to that on a tixi black lacquer box of octagonal shape, dated 14th-15th century, in the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection illustrated by James C. Watt and Barbara B. Ford, East Asian Lacquer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, pp. 57-58, no. 12. However, the authors note that the gentle curvature of the relief design, which is also mirrored in ours, distinguishes the box from the standard Yuan style of carving, which exhibts deeply-cut rounded scrolls in high relief and often deeper V-shaped grooving rather than the shallow U-shape exhibited in the Metroplitan Museum example and ours. They continue, that this type of tixi carving style is generally assigned a Ming date, and indeed it does bear the same relationship to Yuan tixi that early Ming blue-and-white porcelain bears to its Yuan predecessor.For a very slightly larger cinquefoil box and cover of similar design but with two layers (the more usual combination) of cinnabar lacquer to highlight the pommel scrolls, and dated to the fifteenth century, see Christie's, New York, 21 March 2007, lot 172. Another very similar, but slightly larger, example dated 15th/16th century is illustrated by Klaus J. Brandt, Chinesische Lackarbeiten, Linden-Museum Stuttgart, 1988, pp. 72-73, no. 27. For a very slightly larger and slightly later box and cover dated to the 16th Century with additional thin layers of cinnabar to highlight the design, see Christie's, London, 5 November 2012, lot 179 and another sold at Christie's, Hong Kong, 30 May 2012, lot 4225.
