Late Ming dynasty, 16th centuryThe cylindrical cover very deeply carved in unusal high relief with a coastal or lakeside scene with a figure crossing a bridge to a group of buildings in which sit two further figures, all set amongst rocky outcrops and trees receeding to the distance with a small hut on a promontory, the slightly rounded vertical sides of the box and cover each with a single T-pattern band, the red lacquer contiuing over the rounded foot rim, the base and interiors black lacquered. 3 1/4in (8.2cm) diameter, cloth wrap, Japanese wood box,转到 Chinese Works of Art Go
注脚:明晚期 十六世紀 剔紅山水人物圖圓盒蓋See James C.Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, p. 107, no. 42, for another late Ming dynasty box and cover which can be compared favorably in shape and technique and which has very similar key-pattern decoration on the sides.