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A RARE LARGE DATED MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK
LACQUER TRAY
WANLI WUCHEN GILDED INSCRIBED CYCLICAL DATE, CORRESPONDING TO
1580, AND OF THE PERIOD

The shallow tray is inlaid in the interior with a large fowering and
budding peony stem surrounded by four further fower stems below
four additional fower sprays within cartouches separated by forets in
the rounded sides, which are decorated on the exterior with further
fower sprays separated by butterfies above small fower sprays on the
foot. The gilt-flled inscribed eight-character cyclical mark is in a line
in the center of the red-lacquered base.
19Ω in. (49.5 cm.) diam.

$5,000-7,000 描金八字楷書款

明萬曆戊辰年(1580)
黑漆螺鈿牡丹紋大盤

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