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A circular carved cinnabar lacquer box and cover (Qianlong mark and period)
Period: Qianlong mark and period
Dimensions: 4cm diam.
Provenance: Littleton & Hennessy Asian Art – The Art of Scent (Asian Art in London 2010) no. 30
Description
The circular box and cover are of a gently domed shape. Finely carved, when put side by side, to depict a continuous scene of two scholars having a picnic under a blossoming peach tree, both looking towards to their left at a young boy attendant kneeling beside rockworks and under trailing clouds and the sun the sky above.
The interior lacquered black with a Qianlong reign mark incised on the inside of the cover.
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