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Late Ming Dynasty
Of circular form, the cover finely carved through the red lacquer with lychees borne on leafy branches, the rounded fruits alternately carved with a naturalistic texture, the box similarly decorated to the underside with a further leafy spray bearing lychees, all set against a carved diaper ground, the interior lacquered black, Japanese wood box.
7.7cm (3in) diam. (3).
Footnotes
明晚期 剔紅荔枝紋蓋盒
Provenance:
Sotheby's New York, 15 September 2015, lot 253
Published and Illustrated:
Zhang Rong, ed., The Creation of Natural Immensity and Grandeur: The Yang Ming Shan Fang Collection of Lacquer from Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Beijing, 2020, pp.104-105, no.29
來源:
紐約蘇富比,2015年9月15日,拍品編號253
張榮主編,《巧法造化:陽明山房藏宋元明清漆器》,北京,2020年,頁104至105,編號29
Lacquer boxes decorated with the lychee motif were popular during the Ming dynasty. A comparable Ming dynasty example, similar in the size and arrangement of the fruit, is in the Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in , Taipei, 2008, p.66, no.49. Another related example, dated to the late Ming dynasty, is in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in , Shanghai, 2018, p.139, no.87. Compare also three carved cinnabar lacquer 'lychee' boxes and covers, late 15th/early 16th century, illustrated in , Stuttgart, 2006, no.61.
Compare also a similar cinnabar lacquer 'lychee' circular box and cover, 16th century, sold at Sotheby's London, 17 May 2019, lot 231. See also a related carved cinnabar lacquer 'lychee' box and cover, 16th century, which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2016, lot 3414.
剔紅荔枝紋蓋盒於明代頗為流行。台北故宮博物院藏明代一例,果實大小及佈局與本品相近,見《和光剔彩:故宮藏漆》,台北,2008年,頁66,編號49。上海博物館藏另一件明晚期例,見《千文萬華:中國歷代漆器藝術》,上海,2018年,頁139,編號87。另可比對三件十五世紀末/十六世紀初剔紅荔枝紋蓋盒,載於《Im Zeichen Des Drachen: Von Der Schonheit Chinesischer Lacke》,斯圖加特,2006年,編號61。
比較一件十六世紀剔紅荔枝紋蓋盒,售於倫敦蘇富比,2019年5月17日,拍品編號231。再比較十六世紀一例,售於香港佳士得,2016年6月1日,拍品編號3414。