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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A RARE BLACK LACQUER BRACKET-LOBED DISH
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The elegant dish raised on a shallow foot ring is formed by eight petal-shaped The bracket-lobed shape of this dish appears in a number of media during
bracket lobes encircling the slightly sunken center and is covered overall with the Yuan period, most notably in metal, porcelain and lacquer, and was
an attractive brownish-black lacquer. adopted for a variety of vessels in both the Song and Yuan dynasties, such
8¿ in. (20.6 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box as the seven-lobed lacquer box excavated from the Southern Song tomb at
Wujin, Jiangsu province in 1977-78, illustrated by Chen Jing, “Important newly
excavated Southern Song lacquers from Wujin, Jiangsu,” Wenwu, 1979:3,
$40,000-60,000
pp. 47-48, pl. 2, fgs. 4 and 6. Another bracket-lobed box, with six lobes, was
excavated from a Southern Song tomb in Fuzhou city in 1975 and illustrated
PROVENANCE in an article by the Fujian Provincial Museum, “Brief, orderly, report of the
The Lee Family Collection. excavation of a Southern Song tomb in the northern suburbs of Fuzhou city”,
Important Chinese Lacquer from the Lee Family Collection, Part II; Wenwu, 1977:7, p. 11, pl. 3. no. 2.
Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2009, lot 1801.
The present dish is of exceptionally beautiful form, with crisp molding.
EXHIBITED Compare a bracket-lobed lacquer dish dated to the Yuan dynasty of the
Cologne, The Museum of East Asian Art, Dragon and Phoenix, Chinese Lacquer same size and shape as the present dish, which was sold at Christie’s Hong
Ware, The Lee Family Collection, 1990. Kong, 30 April 2001, lot 627; a slightly larger (21.5 cm. diam.) black lacquer
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990-1991. example of the same shape in the Tokyo National Museum illustrated in
Shibuya, Japan, The Shoto Museum of Art, Chinese Lacquerware, 1991.
Hai-wai Yi-Chen, Chinese Art in Overseas Collections: Lacquerware, 1987, no.
LITERATURE 42; and another of slightly smaller size (20 cm. diam.) in the collection of
The Museum of East Asian Art, Dragon and Phoenix, Chinese Lacquer Ware, the Freer Gallery, Washington, D.C., illustrated in The Freer Gallery of Art - I,
The Lee Family Collection, Cologne, 1990, no. 21. China, 1972, no. 114.
The Shoto Museum of Art, Chinese Lacquerware, Shibuya, 1991, no. 9. 元 黑漆花口八瓣式盤

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