A FINE AND IMPORTANT PAIR OF CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER MELON-SHAPED BOXES AND COVERS QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A FINE AND IMPORTANT PAIR OF CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER MELON-SHAPED BOXES AND COVERS QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Each globular box carved to the cover with a detailed landscape within a lobed medallion within formal borders, the sides carved with sixteen rectangular cartouches each containing a different floral sprig against a diaper-ground, all reserved of a dense lotus meander, the similarly shaped foot encircled by a key-fret border
11 1/8 in. (28.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box (2)

Provenance

The Japanese Royal Family

Lot Essay

The Japanese wood box is inscribed, and records the lacquer boxes as having been given in August of the third year of the Taishou reign (1912-1925), corresponding to 1914. These boxes were from the personal collection of the Queen Mother, Shioken (1849-1914), who was the Empress of the Meiji Emperor (1868-1911).

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