Description Of circular shape and domed sides rising from a foot incised with keyfred. The flatend top of the cover meticulously carved with a central peony amidst a dense network of leafy branches in a rectangular medallion, encircled by a band of swastika and bats amidst lotus scrolls and enclosed within a circular keyfred border, the sides similar carved, all reserved on a finely carved brocade ground between keyfred borders. The interior and base lacquered black. Chips.
Dimensions Height 21.7 cm; diameter 49 cm
Literature A very similar large circular red lacquer box in the Linden-Museum collection, Stuttgart, illustrated in: K. Brandt, Chinesische Lackarbeiten, Stuttgart 1988, pp. 106-107, catalogue no. 58
Provenance Private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, acquired at Lempertz, Cologne, 7./8.6.2002, lot 245, and thence by descent
Notes VAT: Margin scheme