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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF IRA AND NANCY KOGER
A CARVED RED LACQUER PEACH-FORM BOX AND COVER
18TH/19TH CENTURY
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A CARVED RED LACQUER PEACH-FORM BOX AND COVER
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The domed cover carved with Xiwangmu standing holding a peach beside a phoenix in a landscape setting surrounded by a border of bats and a dense ground of fruiting and flowering branches including peaches, pomegranates and finger citron, the latter decoration repeated on the sides of the box; together with a carved red lacquer bowl, 17th century, the exterior carved with birds perched in fruiting pomegranate branches between petal and key-fret borders
6½ and 6¾ in. (16.5 and 17.2 cm.) across (2)
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The domed cover carved with Xiwangmu standing holding a peach beside a phoenix in a landscape setting surrounded by a border of bats and a dense ground of fruiting and flowering branches including peaches, pomegranates and finger citron, the latter decoration repeated on the sides of the box; together with a carved red lacquer bowl, 17th century, the exterior carved with birds perched in fruiting pomegranate branches between petal and key-fret borders
6½ and 6¾ in. (16.5 and 17.2 cm.) across (2)