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A CARVED TIXI LACQUER FOLIATE DISH An identical dish in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated
in Zhongguo Qiqi Quanji, 1995, pl. 38; while another from the Swedish
MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY Royal Collection is illustrated by J. Wirgin, ‘Some Chinese Carved
The dish is carved through layers of black and red lacquer with Lacquer of the Yuan and Ming Periods’, B.M.F.E.A. Stockholm, no. 44,
1972, pl. 8, no. 10, together with related boxes, pls. 6 and 7, nos. 7 and
a florette to the centre and four concentric bands of ruyi heads 8. A slightly smaller dish inscribed with a Xuande mark, was sold at
radiating outwards to the rim. The exterior is similarly carved with Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 April 2001, lot 636.
a band of ruyi heads above a straight foot.
10¬ in. (27 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box
HK$200,000-300,000 US$26,000-39,000

PROVENANCE
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1526

明十四 / 十五世紀 剔犀如意雲紋葵瓣式盤

來源
香港佳士得，2006 年 5 月 30 日，拍品 1526 號

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