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PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER
A carved cinnabar lacquer 'scholar's excursion' rectangular box and flat cover
Ming Dynasty, 16th centuryThe cover carved in relief with a delightful lakeside setting depicting a scholar in the foreground clutching a staff and crossing a simple rustic bridge with his young attendant following close behind weighed down by picnic apparatus, all surrounded by mighty craggy rocks and trees including a willow, maple and others, in the near distance a boy sits on a balcony before a large screen and other furniture on the balcony of a pavilion in the distance, all set within a plain border, the deep vertical sides of the cover carved in deep-relief with a single register of tree peony on a cell ground, the box with a simple broad flat foot ring and plain black-lacquered base with vertical rectangular sides that slide inside the cover. 10 x 9 x 3in (25.4 x 22.8 x 7.6cm)
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明 十六世紀 剔紅樓閣人物圖方盒The design can be compared to two other mid-Ming dynasty examples in the Palace Museum, Beijing, one, a box carved with scholars gathering in a courtyard with trees and rockwork, the other, a tray with scholars below pine pointing to a figure seated in a pavilion beyond, illustrated by Zhu Jiajin and Xia Gengqi, Zhongguo qiqi quanji. Ming [Lacquer treasures from China. Ming dynasty], vol. 5, Fujian, 1997, p. 66, pl. 64 and p.77, pl. 77, respectively.For another sixteenth century large cinnabar lacquer rectangular box and cover also carved with a scholar and attendants preparing a picnic in a rustic lakeside setting with craggy rockwork and trees all set on a multi-cell ground, with the vertical sides similarly carved with flowering peony registers, see Sotheby's, New York, 14 September 2016, lot 349.For a cinnabar rectangular tray differing in composition but stylistically similar, see Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3083, where it is compared in style and decorative design on a box and cover in the Kaisendo Museum, Yamagata prefecture, Japan, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Carved Lacquer, Tokugawa and Nezu Museums, 1984, p. 110, no. 151.
