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A FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE IMITATION-LACQUER PORCELAIN CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER

Lot 2709
30.05.2024 10:30UTC +08:00
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HKD 5 292 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationHong Kong, Hong Kong
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ID 1196261
Lot 2709 | A FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE IMITATION-LACQUER PORCELAIN CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
Estimate value
HKD 2 800 000 – 3 500 000
A FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE IMITATION-LACQUER PORCELAIN CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER IMPRESSED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

4 7⁄8 in. (12.4 cm.) diam., box





Provenance

Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 28-29 November 1978, lot 163

Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Important Chinese Porcelain, Enamels and Jade Carvings from the Works of Art Collection of the British Rail Pension Fund, 16 May 1989, lot 47

The Robert Chang Collection, Hong Kong

Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong- Imperial Wares from the Robert Chang Collection, 2 November 1999, lot 506



Literature

Sotheby’s Hong Kong: Twenty Years, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 347

Sotheby’s: Thirty Years in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2003, no. 160

Ye Peilan and J. Thompson, Imperial Perfection: The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, Kangxi- Yongzheng- Qianlong, A Selection from The Wang Xing Lou Collection, Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 256-257, no. 103



Exhibited

London, The Dorchester International Ceramics Fair, June 1986

Christie’s London, An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 2-14 June 1993, cat. no. 41

On loan to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2003-2020
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