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New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 629

A CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER 'FIGUR AL' SQUARE TRAY, MING DYNASTY, WANLI PE RIOD
Estimate: 80,000 - 120,000 USD

A CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER 'FIGURAL' SQUARE TRAY
MING DYNASTY, WANLI PERIOD
明萬曆 剔紅松庭觀瀑圖方盤

the shallow square form tray deeply carved in the center with a scholar in a fenced garden ornamented with rockwork,
accompanied by an attendant standing inside the pavilion with a pine tree issuing from behind, all surrounded by a border of leafy
peony sprays, repeated to the underside of the rim, the base lacquered brown, Japanese wood box (3)

Length 7 in., 17.8 cm.

Provenance
British Private Collection (by repute).

來源
英國私人收藏（傳）

Catalogue Note
Fashioned from numerous thin layers of cinnabar lacquer, this dish is notable for the crispness and depth of its carving. Scenes of
scholars in idyllic landscape settings were generally inspired by woodblock printed books or contemporary paintings, and began to
be reproduced in lacquer in the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Depictions of scholars gazing at waterfalls were a popular painting
subject, and the composition on the present example bears resemblance to a hanging scroll by Zhong Li (active ca. 1480-1500),
from the collection of P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 1991.438.4.

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