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PROPERTY FROM THE ROBERT AND MEE-DIN MOORE PROPERTY FROM THE ROBERT AND MEE-DIN MOORE
COLLECTION COLLECTION
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A SET OF FIVE MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER CIRCULAR
CIRCULAR DISHES STRAIGHT-SIDED TRAY
17th century Ming dynasty, 16th century
Decorated with garden scenes with boys at the center below plain Of circular shape, the interior inlaid with a richly-dressed equestrian
cavetto’s, the reverse sides with basket-weave design, the bases figure with two standing attendants, one holding a silk-wrapped qin
painted in red lacquer with a single differing character from the ‘ten and passing a farmer with faggots attached to a pole amidst a foliage
heavenly stems’, the scenes include viewing a painting and playing surround and under a large gnarled pine tree and clouds, the vertical
chess, bathing, playing music, cutting maple or mulberry leaves, and interior and exterior sides with eight evenly-spaced prunus flower
reading on an elegant building platform. heads on a cash-symbol trellis ground below a copper rim, the base
4 ¾in (12cm) diameter, each (5). with a plain black-brown lacquer.
7 3/4in (5.2cm) diameter, cloth wrap, Japanese wood box
$1,500 - 2,000
$2,500 - 3,500
十七世紀 黑漆嵌螺鈿山水人物圓盤五件
明 十六世紀 黑漆嵌螺鈿人物圖盤

Compare with a sixteenth century tray from the British Museum
decorated with horsemen in a landscape illustrated by Sir Harry
Garner, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979,, p. 225. no. 171.

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