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A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID 元至明初

LACQUER OCTAGONAL 烏漆嵌螺鈿喜上梅梢八方盤
‘MAGPIE AND PRUNUS’ TRAY 來源：

YUAN – EARLY MING 巴黎蘇富比2009年11月18日，編號134
DYNASTY

of octagonal form, with shallow rounded sides rising from a
slightly recessed base to a flat everted rim, all raised on a high
straight foot of corresponding form, the interior decorated
with gnarled branches bearing prunus buds and blooms of
varying sizes, further rendered with two magpies perched
atop a branch with a crescent moon in the distance, each of
the birds portrayed with dense plumage, the cavetto divided
into eight trapezoidal cartouches, each with cusped corners
and enclosing a floral spray below a floral band encircling
the rim, each rounded side of the exterior further detailed
with a floral bloom wreathed by leafy stems, all atop eight
rectangular panels of floral diaper skirting the octagonal high
foot, all decorated with mother-of-pearl inlay against the dark
brownish-black lacquer body
39.1 cm, 15⅜ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Paris, 18th December 2009, lot 134.

HK$ 500,000-700,000
US$ 64,000-89,500

Another closely related dish of this form and related design
from the Florence and Herbert Irving collection in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, was included in the
exhibition East Asian Lacquer. The Florence and Herbert
Irving Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
1991, cat. no. 55.

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