拍品的状况可能存在极大差异,而由于其性质使然,拍品难以处于完美无瑕的状态。拍品均以拍卖时的状况出售。
We have sought to record changes in the condition of these pieces acquired after their initial manufacture.
Circular box:
Good overall condition with a few minute nicks and associated minute losses of lacquer to the mouth rim.
Quadrilobed box:
Good overall condition.
Fan-form box:
A piece a lacquer forming a section of the fan's armature on the cover is detached (the element is not missing, just detached).
A chip with associated losses of lacquer to an upper corner of the cover, a small chip one of the box's lower corner with associated loss of lacquer.
A few nicks to the edges and rims.
An approx. 2.5 cm. long crack on the cover's rim.
A 1.5 cm. wide whitish stain on the box along the foot rim.
A few minute scattered wear/loss of gilding.
The multi-fan-form box:
Some indentations on the surface and rims, mainly on the base and inside the cover, and including a small dent to the box's mouth rim and to the cover's rim.
A chip to a box's rim, a small chip to a cover's rim with associated loss of lacquer.
Some small nicks / nicks to the rims and surface.
A few deep scratches.
A few minute age cracks.
A few possible touch-ups to the lacquer.
All boxes with light surface scratches and light age-related wear as can be expected.
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