REFERENCE: Classics of the Forbidden City: Lacquerware in the Collection of the Palace Museum, Forbidden City Press, 2012, Fig. 5 The lot is with shallow rounded sides resting on a short foot, carved through the thick layers of cinnabar lacquer to the ochre ground with a pair of wild geese, soaring amidst peony blooms and dense foliage, each bird rendered with outstretched wings and meticulously rendered plumage, all surrounded by a frieze of floral buds and blooms borne on gnarled leafy stems on the cavetto, the exterior decorated with a band of lush floral blooms amidst dense foliage.
The lot is with shallow rounded sides resting on a short foot, carved through the thick layers of cinnabar lacquer to the ochre ground with a pair of wild geese, soaring amidst peony blooms and dense foliage, each bird rendered with outstretched wings and meticulously rendered plumage, all surrounded by a frieze of floral buds and blooms borne on gnarled leafy stems on the cavetto, the exterior decorated with a band of lush floral blooms amidst dense foliage.
REFERENCE: Classics of the Forbidden City: Lacquerware in the Collection of the Palace Museum, Forbidden City Press, 2012, Fig. 5