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The present vessel belongs to a well-known group of boxes, made in various sizes and shapes but all decorated with attractive ruyi-shape pommels. Lacquerware of this type is notable for the sense of vivacity that has been achieved through the colour effect in its carvings, which is exemplified on the present box. This decorative technique, with wide V-shaped grooves carved into alternating layers of red and black lacquer, is commonly known as tixi. It has generally been used as a synonym for guri lacquer, a Japanese term describing the spiral designs (see Lee King-tsi and Hu Shih-chang, ‘On Chinese Tixi Lacquer’, Orientations, September 1993, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 65-68).

This piece is outstanding for the masterfully carved design that wraps around the corners of the box, a technique that required a great level of skill and confidence. A closely related box, attributed to the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279), from the Nagata collection, Tokyo, included in the exhibition The Colours and Forms of Song and Yuan China, Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, Tokyo, 2004, cat. no. 62, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 31st May 2010, lot 2026. A similar box, with a Yuan attribution, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, was included in the Museum’s exhibition East Asian Lacquer. The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, 1992, cat. no. 6.

Guri lacquer boxes continued to be produced in the Ming dynasty; see one decorated with ruyi-shaped pommels and cloud scrolls, in the National History Museum of China, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo qiqi quanji [The Complete Works of China Lacquer], vol. 5, Ming, Fujian, 1995, pl. 91; and another, carved with ruyi between scrollwork, formerly in the collection of Fritz Löw-Beer, in the Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, included in the exhibition Im Zeichen des Drachen. Von der Schonheit chinesischer Lacke, Museum f🦹ür Lackkunst, Münster, 2006, cat. no🌜. 75.