A RARE TWO-COLOR CINNABAR LACQUER YAOPEI HANGING ORNAMENT, QING DYNASTY

Experts note:
This rare lacquer yaopei was likely intended to decorate the waist belt. Hanging ornaments like the present lot and are an essential element of Hanfu jewelry and appear in Chinese depictions of female deities such as Magu as well as maidens and beauties.

China, 1644-1912. Finely carved to one side with a smiling Magu standing on neatly incised waves, surrounded by swirling waves against a black diapered key-fret ground, her robes and scarves billowing in the wind, and to the other with a scholar beside his body attendant fanning him, framed by clouds and trees, against diapered square, wave, and key-fret grounds, the short sides carved with diapered wan designs.


Provenance:
From an old French private estate.

Condition:
Expected old wear, some manufacturing flaws, a few nicks and small losses, minuscule natural cracks.

Weight: 26.4 g
Dimensions: Height 5.7 cm

Of quadrilobed rectangular form, the ornament pierced through the top and bottom, the aperture to the top with an oval fitting and the one to the bottom with a rectangular fitting, both carved from organic material.




清代剔犀腰佩


中國，1644-1912年。四方倭角，一面精雕細刻水上麻姑，雲髻高聳，衣著華美，線條流暢，黑漆雲紋地，紅色浪紋；另一面是一位官員與其侍從站在樹邊，似乎看見了什麽，黑漆雲紋地，紅色錦地。側面一周紅漆雷紋。


來源：
法國私人舊藏。

品相：
有磨損、一些製造缺陷、一些刻痕和小缺損、微小的自然裂縫。

重量：26.4 克
尺寸：高5.7 厘米

頂部和底部貫穿，頂部的孔為橢圓形，底部的孔為矩形，分別鑲嵌白色有機材料。