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PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE For another octagonal dish dated to the second half of the 15th Century
COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER but also displaying certain Yuan characteristics such as the scrolling
floral border with individual flower-heads and with the central scene of a
130 gathering in a courtly setting, and very similar handling of drifting mist-
A MAGNIFICENT MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK clouds and striated rockwork, see James C. Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan
LACQUER (BAO LUODIAN) OCTAGONAL OBLONG TRAY Ford, East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The
Ming Dynasty, 15th-16th Century Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, pp.131-132, no. 58. See
The center of the tray decorated in the Yuan style with a pavilion also ibid., pp.124-125, no. 54 and pp. 135-136, no. 60, the first, a Yuan
terrace scene with two gentlemen seated at a table whilst being dynasty nine-sided dish with similar border treatment, the second, a dish
served wine by an attendant and listening to female musicians dated to the sixteenth century with elegant ladies with similarly-treated
alongside, all under the eaves of a pavilion on a fenced terrace coiffered hair and facial features.
surrounded by a lotus pond with a pair of mandarin ducks, rockwork,
willow, bamboo and encroaching mist, the well decorated with a See Karamano, Imported Lacquerwork-Chinese, Korean and Ryukyuan
composite floral scroll of thirty-four flower-heads which is echoed on (Okinawa), Selections From The Tokugawa Art Museum, No. 2, Nagoya,
the exterior above small lappets. 1997, pp. 69-74, no’s 125-135, for a group of Ming lacquer wares with
22 1/2 x 14in (57 x 35.5cm) similar courtly pavilions and figural scenes dated to the 15/16th Centuries.
However an earlier tray with an almost identical border decoration bearing
$25,000 - 35,000 an added Huang-Qing (Ming era) painted mark but dated to the Yuan
Dynasty does bear very close comparison. Indeed based on the border-
明 十五至十六世紀 黑漆嵌螺鈿人物樓閣圖八角盤 decoration alone, both exterior and interior, a Yuan date for our tray would

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