A Chinese black Tixi Guri lacquer octagonal box and cover Southern song /Yuan Dynasty carved black and red layers with tightly arranged ruyi-head motifs, losses, 28 cm wide. Notes: Refer to a comparable example sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 4 November 2013: a Tixi Guri lacquer octagonal box and cover, Southern song /Yuan Dynasty, Lot 338. Also refer to a black Tixi lacquer circular dish, Southern song Dynasty exhibited by Littleton Hennessey Asian Art at the European fine Art Fair 12-21 March 2010, catalogue the Luxury of Chinese lacquer, Littleton Hennessy 2010, page 8, no 2.