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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 RECTANGULAR PEN TRAY A MING-STYLE BLACK AND CINNABAR LACQUER
16th/17th Century SQUARE TRAY
With shallow rounded sides with canted corners, the interior carved Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
with low-relief pommel scrolls, comprising an inner grouping of two Reserved in low-relief black lacquer to the central square panel with
registers of opposing pommel scrolls surrounded by an outward-facing two birds amidst four large peony flower-heads and leafy sprays rising
register of pommel scrolls below a rounded plain rim, the exterior sides from rockwork on a cinnabar lacquer diaper-cell ground, all below
with a dense classic-scroll design, the base black lacquered. gently out-curving sides decorated with a dense ground of peony
14 3/4in (37.4cm) long sprays which is mirrored to the exterior, the base plain
11in (28cm) across
$3,000 - 4,000
$2,000 - 3,000
十六/十七世紀 剔犀如意云紋軸盒
清 明式花鳥紋漆盤
A slightly larger tixi cinnabar lacquer tray dated to the first half of the
17th century was sold at Christie’s, New York, 12 September 2019, lot For a Yuan pre-cursor of this style of black lacquer reserved on a
917. Whilst more square in format than ours it presents a very similar cinnabar ground, see James C.Y.Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford,
profile, a design of opposing and outward-facing pommel scrolls to the East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection,
interior and classic scroll to the exterior. The Metroplitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, pp.66-67, no. 18.
For another dated 16th/17th century, see see Karamono, Imported
A similar tray in black and cinnabar lacquer but with a different Lacquerwork-Chinese, Korean and Ryukyuan (Okinawa), Selections
arrangement of pommel scrolls, see Bonhams, New York, 16 March From The Tokugawa Art Museum, No. 2, Nagoya, Japan, 1997, see
2015, lot 8066, where it is compared to another published in 2000 p. 64, no. 114.
Years of Chinese Lacquer, the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong,
and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993, no. 30.

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