A polychrome lacquer 'lychee' box and cover, Qing dynasty, 18th-19th...

Property from a French Private Collection
A polychrome lacquer 'lychee' box and cover
Qing dynasty, 18th-19th century

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Length 14.8 cm, 5⅞ in.
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Collection particulière française
Boîte couverte en laque polychrome en forme de litchis, dynastie Qing, XVIIIe-XIXe siècle
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法國私人收藏
清十八至十九世紀 剔彩雙荔枝式蓋盒

Catalogue Note:
Compare a polychrome lacquer box preserved in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Gugong Qiqi Tezhan Mulu [Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Lacquer Objects in the Palace Museum], Taipei, 1981, pl. 93; and a larger box depicting two melons, published in Derek Clifford, Chinese Carved Lacquer, London, 1992, pl. 110.