A VERY RARE CARVED THREE-COLOR LACQUER LOBED BOX AND COVER, QIANLONG Carved lacquer in high relief in three colors: cinnabar red, amber and black on a wooden body, black lacquer coating inside and to baseChina, Qianlong period (1736-1795)The top of the cover deeply and crisply carved through the outer cinnabar-red layer to the black and amber layers of lacquer to depict a scene with the Sanxing, Fu, Lu and Shou, and two attendants on a palace terrace, surrounded by a magnificent landscape. The central image is framed by a meander border and the sides on the lid and the base show alternating medallions with fruits and flowers and tied Buddhist symbols. All reserved on a diaper-ground, the interior and base lacquered black.Shape: LobedDimensions: 22 cm (length) 22 cm (width) 7 cm (height)Weight: 675.5 gramsCondition: Good and original condition with some cracks and very minor material loss – mainly to inside rims Provenance: from an American private estate – comes with an old article from 1966 in the Chicago Tribune which the previous owner kept as it shows a closely related box Auction results comparison: For two other three-color lacquer boxes dating to the Qianlong period, see Bonhams, FINE CHINESE ART, 12 Mai 2016, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET, lot 279 or Christie’s, Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 27 November 2007, lot 1667. 乾隆年極爲罕見的三色漆蓋盒漆雕，三色深浮雕：朱紅，琥珀色及黑色，木胎，黑漆打底中國，乾隆 (1736-1795)盒蓋深浮雕，有最外層的朱紅漆層深入，透過黑色與和琥珀色漆層，刀工清晰準確地描繪了福祿壽三星以及宮殿露台上的兩名仙童，四周景觀華麗雍容。中央圖像由曲折的邊框構成，蓋子和底座的側面開光，可見鮮花仙果與佛教法寶。盒子內部和底部塗黑色漆。造型：五瓣圓形尺寸：長 22 厘米，寬22 厘米，高 7 厘米重量： 675.5 克品相：良好，一些磕碰傷，主要在内邊沿有些微材料缺失來源：美國私人遺產–隨漆盒一起還有之前藏家一份放在外包裝盒裏的1966年《芝加哥論壇報》的文章