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The present lacquer dish, with its elegant shape in line with See a larger example with an everted rim (30.5 cm), inscribed
the aesthetics of the Song dynasty, would have reminded to the base with the characters Wu xing dong ji and attributed
any Chinese, whether from the ruling class or belonging to the Northern Song dynasty, included in the exhibition
to the scholar gentry, of the understated blooms of The Colors and Forms of Song and Yuan China: Featuring
chrysanthemums, a flower with delicate fragrance symbolising Lacquerwares, Ceramics, and Metalwares, Nezu Institute of
the subtle virtue of a gentleman. Fine Arts, Tokyo, 2004, cat. no. 13, together with a dingyao
moulded dish of chrysanthemum shape in the collection of the
Tokyo National Museum, cat. no. 15.
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