AN UNUSUAL PAINTED LACQUER 'BASKET WEAVE' CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER 17th century The cover decorated with two red flowering peonies issuing from leafy stems, the box and cover sides with black lacquer borders enclosing basket weave bands, metal-mounted clasp. 27.5cm (10 7/8in) diam. (2). Footnotes: 十七世紀 黑漆牡丹紋籐編圓蓋盒 Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2004, no.122. 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2004年，編號122 A related box, dated 1635, but not hinged, is illustrated by G.Kuwayama, Far Eastern Lacquer, Los Angeles, 1982, p.89, no.29. See also H.Garner, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, no.203 for another box dated circa 1600 in the British Museum. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com