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A RARE SHALLOW LOW RECTANGULAR BLACK LACQUER With so little in the way of decoration to enable a specific dating of
TRAY this lovely delicate tray, a wide dating parameter seems appropriate
Song to Ming dynasty here. Whilst the extremely light weight, plain surfaces and delicate
with shallow everted sides rising from a plain foot, the lacquer construction suggest a possible Song or Yuan production date, the
undecorated and lightly crackled all over, the tray of an extremely light overall profile might also suggest a Ming date of manufacture.
weight.
13 3/4 x 9 1/16in (35 x 23cm) For a square tray of smaller size (7 inches across) dated to the Song-
Yuan dynasty, see Christie’s, Hong Kong, 27 November 2013, lot
$3,000 - 5,000 3554, where it is compared to another in the National Palace Museum,
Taipei, included in the exhibition, China at the Inception of the Second
宋至明 黑素漆盤 Millennium: Art and Culture of the Sung Dynasty, 960-1279, Taipei,
2000, p. 165, no. III-19.

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