ID 807267
Lot 873 | A VERY RARE LARGE CARVED RED AND BLACK LACQUER PEACH-FORM 'SHOU’ BOX AND COVER
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The top of the cover is finely carved with a panel of conforming peach shape and is deeply carved on a diaper ground with a bowl containing auspicious emblems and a shou medallion flanked by two wan symbols beneath a ruyi-shaped panel containing a scene of Shoulao flying on a crane above the Eight Immortals, Liu Hai, and another immortal, possibly Dongfang Shuo, shown riding on a bat, all enclosed by a border of bats and clouds beneath a pair of confronting fish. The sides of the cover and the box are carved with a key-fret border at the rims and two rows of sixty permutations of the shou character on a leiwen ground. The interior and base are lacquered black.
17 1/8 in. (43.4 cm.) wide
Provenance
Royal Phoenix, New York, 1986.
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Japanese lacquerware, Plastic |
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| Historical era: | Qianlong period |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Boxes and Cases |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Japanese lacquerware, Plastic |
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| Historical era: | Qianlong period |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Boxes and Cases |
| Address of auction |
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