An Imitation Gold and Silver-decorated Box and CoverQianlong six-character mark
Of circular form painted inside and out with a brilliant dark coffee glaze, the cover slightly domed and painted at the center in gilt and silver with a stylized multi-petaled flower head surrounded by a row of eight alternating ruyi heads and C-scrolls below a band of T-frets, wavy bands, simple dots and double lines, the box similarly painted with an alternating design of five rings centered by dots forming a star shape painted in gilt and ruyi heads forming a star shape painted in silver, enclosed by gilt double lines at the foot and rim, the slightly concave base painted in gilt with a neat, delicately written six-character seal mark.
2 1/2in (6.4cm) diam. (2).注脚For a slightly larger box and cover (3 1/4in diam.) with very similar decoration of silver and gilt on a coffee ground see Sotheby's Hong Kong, Important Chinese Works of Art, 7 April 2015, lot 3618. For a reticulated censer of similar type, also bearing a gilt Qianling six-character mark, see Christie's, 29 May 2013, lot 2126. A small vase (3 1/2in high) also decorated in this unusual fashion, was sold at Sotheby's New York, 14 September 2011, lot 211.