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PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE For another Ming vessel displaying the same rather unusual
COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER ‘channelled’ carving of the floral design displayed on the interior sides
of our example, see Zhu Jiajin and Xia Gengqi, Zhongguo qiqi quanji.
118 Ming [Lacquer treasures from China. Ming dynasty], vol. 5, Fuzhou,
A CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER ‘SPRING-BLOSSOM Fujian, 1995, p. 90, no. 88.

COLLECTING’ RECTANGULAR TRAY
Ming Dynasty, 16th Century For a polychrome lacquer painted tray bearing a Wanli reign mark
With shallow rounded sides and canted corners, carved in a flat- (1573-1620), with identical layout of the design, with a central ogival
surfaced low-relief at the center with a scholar and his assistant panel reserved on a cell-ground and bordered with scrolling foliage,
carrying an early prunus blossom branch in a rocky setting with pine, see also James C.Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian
bamboo and prunus blossoms set within an ogival central panel which Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, New York, 1991,
is reserved against a larger rectangular panel with a cloud motif on a pp. 120-121, no. 51.
cell ground, the interior up-curving sides carved in a more dense relief
with channelled grooving to emphasize the trailing floral design, the
exterior with a continuous single register of key-pattern above a thin
line of simply-scooped semi-circle lappets, a short footrim and a plain
black-lacquered base
14in (35.5cm) across

$4,000 - 6,000

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