FINE CINNABAR LACQUER PENTAFOIL BOX AND COVER, QIANLONG PERIOD

FINE CINNABAR LACQUER PENTAFOIL BOX AND COVER, QIANLONG PERIOD, the cover deeply carved with a scholar and attendants in a mountain landscape beside a bridge, the sides carved with panels of blossoming stems flanked and divided by lotus blossoms and scrolling tendrils, 24cm diam Provenance: Bears an old Spink and Son Ltd label. Note: Boxes of this form with similar decoration are illustrated in Kwan, Chinese Lacquer, no. 107, pp. 298-9; and in Lacquer Ware of the Qing Dynasty: The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, nos. 7 and 8, pp. 12-15.