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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 6, 2016 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Important Chinese Art | 3667 | $****** - ****** | AN EXTREMELY RARE RECTANGULAR PARCEL-GILT BRONZE BOX AND COVER |
sculpture
13.8 cm (5.43 in)
Gilt bronze
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 2001.
Paul Moss and Gerard Hawthorn, The Second Bronze Age. Later Chinese Metalwork, Sydney Moss Ltd., London, 1991, cat. no. 101.<br>Philip K. Hu, Later Chinese Bronzes - The Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert Kresko Collections, St. Louis, 2008, cat. no. 10.
of rectangular form, the top of the cover cast in low relief with a scene depicting an elephant, a horse and a dog frolicking in a pond, the waters rendered with swirls and accentuated in two corners with reeds and jagged rockwork, all enclosed within a slightly tapered thin band along the edge, the straight sides of the box decorated with low relief and completing the scenes on the straight sides of the box of corresponding form, one long side with a flying-fish dragon (feiyu) confronting a horselike creature, possibly a mythical celestial horse (tianma) or a seahorse (haima), the other long side with a mythical beast, possibly the Beast of the White Marsh (baize) or a suanni confronting two smaller animals, one short side with an elephant, the other with a 'Buddhist lion', all depicted in a setting of engulfing and tempestuous waves, all above a thin band along the edge of the box, the base centred with a three-character seal mark within a square reading Lu Weiliang, the relief details and bands along the edges intricately gilded, the overall surface a warm caramel-brown patina