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PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER
A Ming carved cinnabar lacquer circular cover (and box)
The cover 15th Century, the replacement Japanese box possibly Muromachi period The cover carved in deep dense relief with a flowering peony at the center and surrounded by leafy foliage and buds and revealing a yellow lacquer below, the Japanese lacquer bottom-half with Muromachi-type mottled 'merging' red and black lacquer carved with low-relif foliage. 2 1/2in (6.3cm) diameter
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明 十五世紀 剔紅牡丹紋圓蓋 配日本作盒身For another similar (box and) cover, see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, The Baoyizhai Collection of Chinese Lacquer, Part I, 8 April 2014, lot 34 where the flower is described as a camellia. Compare two closely related examples, both described as depicting peony, one illustrated in Imported Lacquerwork – Chinese, Korean and Ryukyuan (Okinawa), Selections From The Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya, 1997, p. 42, no. 59 and another published in Masterpieces of Chinese Lacquer Ware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1971, pp.85-86, no. 18, col. pl. 18. For a 15th century Muromachi box with classic 'merging' red and black lacquer, see Ann Yonemura, 'The Art of Chinese Lacquer', Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Fall/Winter Issue, 1987-1988, pp. 38-39, fig. 13.
