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PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE
COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER
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A TIXI CINNABAR LACQUER CIRCULAR SHALLOW-DOMED A CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER POURING VESSEL, YI
BOX AND COVER Ming Dynasty, 16/17th Century
Late Ming Dynasty, 16th /17th Century The sides decorated in a continuous band with leafy branches of
deeply carved with V-shaped channels through mutiple layers of lychee on a diaper-cell ground, between wavy lotus petals above the
differently-toned cinnabar lacquer and thinner layers of black lacquer foot and further diaper-cell at the rim, a simple animal-headed loop
with four interlocking scrolls to the very shallowly domed cover, the handle at one end (a later small metal ladle).
vertical short sides with a simplified key-pattern, a low plain foot ring 4 1/2in (11.4cm) across (2).
with a countersunk base revealing an orange-green marbled effect
2 3/4in (7cm) diameter $2,000 - 3,000

$1,500 - 2,500 明 十六/十七世紀 剔紅荔枝紋匜 後配金屬勺

明晚期 十六/十七世紀 剔犀圓盒 For a very similar cup see Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., Oriental Art, Oriental
Works of Art, London, June 2000, no. 77, with lingzi rather than
Whilst based on Yuan pre-cursors; for example see Robert D. lychee decoration to the sides. See also another sold at Bonhams,
Jacobson, Appreciating China: Gifts from Ruth and Bruce Dayton, San Francisco, 25 June 2019, lot 149. See also another with Mifu in
Minniapolis, 2002, p. 112, no.57; and another sold at Christie’s, New a landscape, A Special Exhibit of Collections from Mr. Robert Chang’s
York, 16 September 2008, lot 129; the carving style and material are ‘Studio of Lotus Fragrance’, Suzhou Museum, 2009, pl 134.
here more closely akin to later Ming cinnabar examples, see Christie’s,
Hong Kong, 28 April 2020, lot 79 and another Christie’s, London, 9
May 2011, lot 62.

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