Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
Auction Closed
March 23, 06:46 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A mother-of-pearl inlaid brown lacquer box and cover
Ryukyu Kingdom, 17th century
琉球王國 十七世紀 褐漆嵌螺鈿松鼠葡萄紋蓋盒
(2)
Height 4½ in., 11.6 cm; Width 17⅞ in., 45.3 cm; Depth 14 in., 35.6 cm
See a closely related example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession no. 2019.193.45a, b), exhibited in East Asian Lacquer from the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, cat. no. 163. Compare another similar example, but of smaller size, also in the Museum (accession no. 2020.323.11a–e), and another sold at Christie's Tokyo, 15th February 1981, lot 435, now in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit (accession no. 81.683.A).