清乾隆 戧金填漆嬰戲圖「萬代勝盒」 《大清乾隆年製》款

modelled in the form of two overlapping lozenges with six cylindrical posts at the corners, the cinnabar lacquer finely incised and gilt in the qiangjin technique and further picked out in tianqi polychrome enamels with five children at play in a fenced garden terrace set with jagged rocks issuing peonies and a lofty aged tree, to the left a boy ride a hobby horse, while another masquerades as the God of examination Kuixing, and the third hits a gong, to the right another boy pulls a cart while his acolyte holds a ruyi sceptre, the sloping sides similarly decorated with wan symbols among multi-coloured clouds repeated above tempestuous green waves around the foot, the straight sides picked out with a floral-diaper ground and descending bats on the cylindrical posts, the base lacquered red and inscribed in gilt Wandai shenghe ('Double Lozenge Box of Myriad Generations') below a six-character incised horizontal reign mark

《中國漆藝二千年》，香港東方陶瓷學會，香港中文大學文物館，香港，1993年，編號88
《疊彩：抱一齋藏中國漆器》，香港中文大學文物館，香港，2010年，編號23

The overall condition is very good. The cover only has a 2 cm diameter circular stabilized bruise with associated cracks radiating out on the diaper ground on the lower left side below the boy in the red robe. The cracks from this bruise has been stabilized from both interior and exterior. There is another associated crack that has been stabilized on the lower left edge of the frame near the rocks. There are also expected minor retouching to the bottom edge of the cover at the joints where the two diamonds meet in the middle. There is also minor retouching to a few of the circular flanges that extend off the corners. The box is also in remarkable condition with only light retouching to the circular flanges that extend off the corners, a couple small areas along the inner mouthrim and footrim. The base has a few stabilized cracks that run through the mark and up the sides through the joints of where the two diamonds meet.
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北京故宮博物院清宮舊藏有刻嘉靖款的方勝式盒，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集‧元明漆器》，香港，2006年，頁193，編號151〈圖一〉。另有一件帶隆慶款，飾龍紋藏伯明罕巴伯藝術學院，見 Harry Garner，《 Chinese Lacquer》，倫敦，1979年，圖版136。這些十六世紀的作品應是乾隆方勝盒，包括現盒的藍本。故宮藏嘉靖方勝盒以戧金填漆工藝加飾龍鳳戲珠紋。

東京國立博物館藏一件與此盒相同的方勝盒，見《東洋漆工藝》，東京國立博物館，東京，1977年，編號585。一件較小，不帶款並飾嬰戲圖的例子2004年4月25日於香港蘇富比拍賣，編號324。

此盒通體雕填漆戧金紋飾，滿載吉祥寓意。上飾蝙蝠、靈芝及卍字，帶有幸福、繁榮和長壽的象徵意義。蓋盒取名「萬代勝盒」，象徵子孫萬代、繁榮昌盛的祝願。乾隆朝工匠取嘉靖方勝造型為藍本，紋飾更趨豐盈細緻，盡顯乾隆朝華麗新穎又饒富喜慶的風格。