MAGNIFIQUE ET IMPORTANTE BOÎTE IMPÉRIALE EN LAQUE ROUGE SCULPTÉE
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Marque et époque Qianlong (1736-1795)
A MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE LARGE ARCHAISTIC CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER 'TWELVE IMPERIAL EMBLEMS' GUIBI BOX AND COVER
Four-character Qianlong mark and of the period
Shaped in the form of a large guibi, a pointed rectangular gui tablet and superimposed bi disc, the cover finely and deeply carved through layers of red lacquer, centred on a four-character Qianlong nianzhi mark surrounded by archaistic dragon scrolls within a keyfret border, all on a dense diaper ground, the pointed top with a pair of stylised qilong dragons flanking a single trigram, bordered by a keyfret band and against a dense diaper ground, the lower part similarly decorated with archaistic motifs against a diaper ground and within a keyfret border, finely and intricately carved around the sides with the Twelve Imperial Symbols of Authority (shier zhangwen), including the sun and the moon, a constellation of three stars, the rock or mountain flanked by two trigrams, the axe or hatchet and the figure fu, a pair of confronted dragons and a pheasant, a pair of sacrificial cups containing a tiger and a monkey, waterweed, grain and a flame, all above cresting waves and below auspicious clouds, against a dense diaper ground, the interiors and base lacquered black, the red lacquer with fine marbling.
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