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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 COMPOSITE MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER A MING MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND BROWN AND BLACK
PANEL INSET BASKET-WEAVE TRAY LACQUER SQUARE TRAY
the panel 14/15th Century, the sides 16th Century 16th/17th Century
The panel with a scene of a gnarled prunus branch of five-petalled A plain ogival medallion to the center on a cell ground below shallow
flowers with rockwork and tufts of grasses to the lower left corner, the curving sides decorated shaped panels with phoenix clutching
panel inset to a later Ming dynasty tray with four basket-weave panels flowering tendrils, reserved on a diaper cell ground, the corners
to the straight everted sides. canted, the exterior and base plain.
8 1/2in (21.6cm) across 7 ½ in (19.3cm) across

$2,500 - 3,500 $2,500 - 3,500

十六世紀盤 十四/十五世紀嵌螺鈿盤心 黑漆嵌螺鈿梅花圖盤 明 十六/十七世紀 黑漆嵌螺鈿飾鳳鳥紋倭角盤

For a similar panel on the cover of a mother-of-pearl inlaid inkstone
box dated to the Yuan dynasty, see Lee Yu-kuan, Oriental Lacquer Art,
New York and Tokyo, 1972, pp.138-140, no. 71.
For a fourteenth century black lacquer tray with mother-of-pearl inlay
of birds on a flowering plum at the center, see James C.Y. Watt and
Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert
Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992,
pp.126-127, no. 55.

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