Lot 139 Dα

A carved red lacquer peach-shaped box and cover. 18th/19th century

The top of the cover finely carved with a scholar and a boy accompanied by a servant amidst a rocky shore landscape, all reserved on a finely carved brocade ground. The sides decorated with leafy branches bearing peaches and various blossoms. The base lacquered red and the interior black with an old collectors number 442 in red. a scholar with boys, accompanied by a servant on a jetty on the lake shore
Height 12.7 cm; diameter 16 cm