A RARE PAINTED LACQUER 'SNAKE' CUP AND COVERWarring States PeriodThe domed cover with steep walls rising to a flat medallion top carved and painted in red and yellow lines with eight intertwining snakes, the lacquered exteriors carved and further painted with twelve sinuous intertwining snakes, the interiors covered in red lacquer, the exteriors and base covered in black lacquer, box.20.5cm (8 1/8in) high. (2).For further information on this lot please visit theProvenance: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.本拍品不設底價戰國 彩繪木雕蟠螭漆蓋卮ProvenanceThe Feng Wen Tang CollectionExhibited:Hong Kong Museum of Art,Honouring Tradition and Heritage: Ming Chiu Society at Sixty, 18 December 2020 - 28 April 2021Published and Illustrated:Min Chiu Society and Hong Kong Museum of Art,Honouring Tradition and Heritage: Ming Chiu Society at Sixty, Hong Kong, 2020, pl.159, p.328來源：奉文堂珍藏展覽：香港藝術館，《聚道傳承—敏求精舍六十周年》，2020年12月18日至2021年4月28日出版及著錄：敏求精舍及香港藝術館，《聚道傳承—敏求精舍六十周年》，香港，2020年，圖版159，頁328。Lacquer pieces are relatively well preserved in Chu Kingdom tombs of the Warring States period because of the special architectural designs; for a very similar painted lacquer 'snake' cup and cover with a steeper cover excavated from a Chu tomb close to Hubei Jiangling County, seeZhongguo meishu quanji: qiqi, pl.17, p.84.群螭交互蟠結，繁而不亂。蓋上八螭，四條紅螭頭向蓋頂正中，四條黃螭頭向蓋沿四周。卮身蟠螭十二條，亦盤身交錯。整器黑地上以朱黃兩色繪條帶紋，飾有蟠繞虬曲的二十條螭，造型生動，刻畫細緻，為一件經過巧思設計的精品，盒内素髹紅漆。楚墓采用白膏泥密封木結構墓室的方法，對保存漆器極爲有利。比較一件發掘自湖北江陵楚墓群的彩繪木雕蟠螭漆蓋卮，見《中國美術全集：漆器》，河北，1998年，頁84，圖17。