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A MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BROWN 琉球王國 十七世紀 褐漆嵌螺鈿松鼠葡
LACQUER BOX AND COVER 萄紋蓋盒
RYUKYU KINGDOM, 17TH CENTURY
(2)
Height 4½ in., 11.6 cm; Width 17⅞ in., 45.3 cm; Depth 14 in.,
35.6 cm
See a closely related example in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York (accession no. 2019.193.45a, b), exhibited
in East Asian Lacquer from the Florence and Herbert Irving
Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, cat.
no. 163. Compare another similar example, but of smaller
size, also in the Museum (accession no. 2020.323.11a–e),
and another sold at Christie’s Tokyo, 15th February 1981, lot
435, now in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit (accession
no. 81.683.A).
$ 40,000-60,000

382
A MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK LACQUER 元至明初 十四世紀 黑漆嵌螺鈿喜上梅
‘MAGPIE AND PRUNUS’ OCTAGONAL TRAY 梢圖八方盤
YUAN - EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY
Width 15⅜ in., 39.1 cm 來源
巴黎蘇富比2009年12月18日，編號134
PROVENANCE

Sotheby’s Paris, 18th December 2009, lot 134.
Another closely related tray of this form and 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.
⊖ $ 40,000-60,000

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