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PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER
A fine carved cinnabar lacquer circular box and flat cover
Ming Dynasty, 16th CenturyDelicately carved in relief with a seated figure of Budai resting on his travelling bag with a fly whisk in his left hand on a rising knoll with dense floral-cell-ground beneath a gnarled pine itself set against a ground of horizontal grooves with vertical ticks to describe the sky, the straight sides of the box and cover very neatly carved with a finely-channelled key-pattern band, a simple rounded foot ring and black-lacquered flat base. 2 1/2in (6.3cm) diameter
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明 十六世紀 剔紅布袋圖蓋盒For a slightly smaller circular box and cover dated to the sixteenth century and simialrly carved with a seated figure of Budai on a rising knoll but beneath a blossoming prunus, rather than the pine of our example, and accompanied by children, see Christie's, Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3840. For another very similar-sized box and flat cover with identically treated channelled-key-pattern at the sides but with an elegant female and child, rather than Budai, but set against the same sky treatment, see Masterpieces of Chinese Lacquer Ware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1971, p. 85, no. 17, col. pl. 17.For a similar depiction of this amusing scene on a small box and cover dated to the late Ming dynasty, see Zhu Jiajin and Xia Gengqi, Zhongguo qiqi quanji. Ming [Lacquer treasures from China. Ming dynasty], vol. 5, Fuzhou, Fujian, 1995, pp. 170-171, no. 161; and a similar-sized example also depicting the seated Budai and children dated to the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 4 May 1994, lot 289. A hexagonal tired box and cover carved with a scene of Budai in a landscape is illustrated by Derek Clifford, Chinese Carved Lacquer, London, 1992, p. 61, no. 37.
