A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL POLYCHROME LACQUER 'DRAGON' BOX
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)
A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL POLYCHROME LACQUER 'DRAGON' BOX WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619) Superbly carved to the flat cover through layers of cinnabar, green and yellow lacquer with a central roundel containing a fierce full-face dragon, its eyes picked out in black, amidst vaporous ruyi -shaped clouds coiling around a 'flaming pearl', the central roundel encircled by six further roundels depicting similar dragons shown in profile facing the central dominant dragon, their bodies alternately picked out in cinnabar and green, the roundels separated by ruyi clouds and lotus sprigs, the sides of the box and cover with shaped panels depicting two rows of four confronted green and cinnabar dragons separated by the Eight Buddhist Emblems, all against intricate yellow and cinnabar lacquer diaper grounds, the interiors and base lacquered black 17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL POLYCHROME LACQUER 'DRAGON' BOX
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)
A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL POLYCHROME LACQUER 'DRAGON' BOX WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619) Superbly carved to the flat cover through layers of cinnabar, green and yellow lacquer with a central roundel containing a fierce full-face dragon, its eyes picked out in black, amidst vaporous ruyi -shaped clouds coiling around a 'flaming pearl', the central roundel encircled by six further roundels depicting similar dragons shown in profile facing the central dominant dragon, their bodies alternately picked out in cinnabar and green, the roundels separated by ruyi clouds and lotus sprigs, the sides of the box and cover with shaped panels depicting two rows of four confronted green and cinnabar dragons separated by the Eight Buddhist Emblems, all against intricate yellow and cinnabar lacquer diaper grounds, the interiors and base lacquered black 17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
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