AN EXTREMELY RARE LARGE IMPERIAL POLYCHROME LACQUER PEACH-SHAPED BOX AND COVER ACCOMMODATING NINE MATCHING BOXES AND COVERS
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
AN EXTREMELY RARE LARGE IMPERIAL POLYCHROME LACQUER PEACH-SHAPED BOX AND COVER ACCOMMODATING NINE MATCHING BOXES AND COVERS QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) The top of the cover with a panel of conforming peach shape, deeply carved on a green wan -diaper ground with a bowl of Precious Objects, radiating red, green and yellow rays illuminating a large Chun character decorated with a roundel enclosing Shoulao and a deer in a landscape setting , the central motif flanked by a pair of sinuous dragons amidst densely scrolling clouds, the rounded sides of the box and cover with bats in flight amidst leafy boughs bearing peaches and blossoms, the cover opening to reveal a black lacquer fitted tray gilt with further bats among scrolling foliage, recessed to hold nine further peach-shaped boxes, each decorated with one of the attributes of the 'Eight Daoist Immortals', Anbaxian , within a border of bats among clouds, with the ninth box designed with a bat in flight suspending a be-ribboned musical chime, all reserved on different coloured diaper grounds including brown, green, cinnabar, yellow, black and grey, the interiors and bases of all the boxes lacquered black 18 1/8 in. (46.1 cm.) wide
AN EXTREMELY RARE LARGE IMPERIAL POLYCHROME LACQUER PEACH-SHAPED BOX AND COVER ACCOMMODATING NINE MATCHING BOXES AND COVERS
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
AN EXTREMELY RARE LARGE IMPERIAL POLYCHROME LACQUER PEACH-SHAPED BOX AND COVER ACCOMMODATING NINE MATCHING BOXES AND COVERS QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) The top of the cover with a panel of conforming peach shape, deeply carved on a green wan -diaper ground with a bowl of Precious Objects, radiating red, green and yellow rays illuminating a large Chun character decorated with a roundel enclosing Shoulao and a deer in a landscape setting , the central motif flanked by a pair of sinuous dragons amidst densely scrolling clouds, the rounded sides of the box and cover with bats in flight amidst leafy boughs bearing peaches and blossoms, the cover opening to reveal a black lacquer fitted tray gilt with further bats among scrolling foliage, recessed to hold nine further peach-shaped boxes, each decorated with one of the attributes of the 'Eight Daoist Immortals', Anbaxian , within a border of bats among clouds, with the ninth box designed with a bat in flight suspending a be-ribboned musical chime, all reserved on different coloured diaper grounds including brown, green, cinnabar, yellow, black and grey, the interiors and bases of all the boxes lacquered black 18 1/8 in. (46.1 cm.) wide
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