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of circular section with a ff attened top, the upper surface of the cover deeply carved with ff uid swirling classic scrolls extending down the sides revealing alternating layers of red, black and yellow lacquers, the sides of the box similarly carved, the interiors and recessed base lacquered black, the base incised with a three-character mark reading Yang Mao zao (made by Yang Mao), Japanese wood box (3)
Diameter 4? in., 10.4 cm
PROVENANCE
Christie’s Hong Kong, 30th April 2001, lot 642
The carved design on the current box, known as tixi or the Japanese term, guri (curves and circles), was a pattern established towards the end of the Song dynasty. The design on the current box, where the geometric design is made up mainly of detached ruyi motifs gained popularity from the Yuan dynasty onwards
See two tixi lacquer boxes of similar form and closely related design, one in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, published in Hai-wai Yi-chen. Chinese Art in Overseas Collections. Lacquerware, Taipei, 1987, pl. 73; and the other included in the exhibition East Asian Lacquer. The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, cat. no. 11.
Compare the tixi lacquer box and cover sold in our London rooms, 16th May 2012, lot 68; and another, of larger size (8 3/8 in., 21.3 cm), sold in these rooms, 16th-17th September 2014, lot 546.
明永樂 剔犀卷草紋蓋盒
《楊茂造》款
來源
香港佳士得2001年4月30日，編號642
