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Mee-Din and Robert W. Moore at their Los Angeles residence, 2020.

Robert W. Moore is a collector, consultant and dealer in Asian Art. by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2000 and serves
He is perhaps best known for the high quality Korean collections as the core of that collection today. The long list of institutions
that he has built over the past 50 years. However, he should also that have purchased or taken on loan objects from the Robert
receive a great deal of credit for his robust contribution to our W. Moore collection, besides the aforementioned, include The
knowledge of Chinese and Ryukyuan lacquer through judicious Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Asian Art Museum of San
collecting that has continued quietly alongside his main Korean Francisco, The Seattle Art Museum, The Cleveland Museum of Art,
interest. His private library of these subjects rivals most. His first The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Asia Society and the Idemitsu
Collection of Korean art was offered in a groundbreaking sale at Collection in Tokyo.
Christie’s in New York in 1986. A second collection was acquired

PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE COLLECTION
OF CHINESE LACQUER
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A RARE EARLY PENTAFOIL CINNABAR TIXI LACQUER DISH,
13th-15th Century
The interior carved in low relief through layers of differing tones of cinnabar ranging
from deep-purple-red, orange and a pale green, with a radiating design of two
pentafoil-cartouches of petal and star shape within the petal-form rim, centered
by a five-petal flowerhead within two bands of spirals bordered by ruyi-heads
within the first pentafoil cartouche itself set on a five-pointed star cartouche with
a scroll ground and whose points merge at the rim bisecting further scrolls below
the petal-form rim, the shallow rounded exterior sides carved to mirror the interior
design, the base lacquered in a black (age cracks at stress points).
7 1/2in (19 cm) across

$12,000 - 18,000

十三至十五世紀 剔犀如意雲紋葵口盤

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