A CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER BOX AND COVER 16th century The rectangular top carved with a scholar flanked by a deer, standing on a lake shore with his boy attendant offering an official's cap, the shore dotted with luxuriant plants and rocks, the ground and water finely picked out with variations of cell-pattern grounds, the sides of the box and cover with leafy branches of cherry blossoms on a brocade ground, the interior black. 12.6cm (5in) wide. (2). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 十六世紀 剔紅「加官進爵圖」長方蓋盒 Provenance: Christie's New York, 23 March 2012, lot 1700 來源：紐約佳士得，2012年3月23日，拍品編號1700 See a similar cinnabar lacquer box and cover illustrated in Chinese Art in the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 1997, pl.99; a related example in the Shanghai Museum, is included In A Myriad of Forms: The Ancient Chinese Lacquers, Shanghai, 2018, no.85; and another is published in The Complete Collection of the Palace Museum: Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Beijing, 2006, no.196. See a related carved cinnabar lacquer rectangular box and cover, 16th century, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 11 September 2019, lot 825. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com