A VERY RARE EARLY MING GLOBULAR CARVED TIXI LACQUER BOX AND COVER

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A VERY RARE EARLY MING GLOBULAR CARVED TIXI LACQUER BOX AND COVER
MING DYNASTY, EARLY 15TH CENTURY

The deep box and high domed cover well carved in deep relief through layers of dark brown and cinnabar-red lacquer with bands of ruyi scrolls, centering on a flower-head on the cover, all raised on a splayed foot encircled by classic scrolls, the interior and base covered with brown lacquer
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box with ink inscription Guri Box and one seal Takase-han, Hosogawa-kei

Provenance

Hosakawa Family Collection, Kyuchu Prefecture
A Japanese collector of teawares, Tokyo

Lot Essay

Deep boxes of this type would most likely have been used to contain food. A similar octagonal box from the Tokyo University of Arts, was included in the exhibition, Carved Lacquer, Tokugawa Art Museum and Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 17.

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