Quatrefoil Box and Cover, 18th century, 4 5/8 x 12 7/16 x 9 1/8 in. ( x x cm), Carved red lacquer (tihong), China, 18th century, Three dragons, vivaciously carved with sinuous, scaly bodies, horns, and beards, cavort across the lid of this quatrefoil (four-lobed) box. Dragons were associated with both waves and clouds and the so-called 'spinning wave' design comprising the background pattern on this box first emerged in the middle Qing period in the 1700s. The sides of both box and cover are carved with the same overlapping wave pattern, punctuated by floating flower heads

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