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PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE For a foliate dish dated to the sixteenth century and decorated with
COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER a scene of elagant ladies with attendants in a garden pavilion setting,
see see James C. Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian
135 Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan
A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER TIERED Museum of Art, New York, 1991, pp.135-136, no. 60. The authors
draw attention to the open-work cutting of the ladies dresses (reserve-
SQUARE BOX AND COVER
Ming Dynasty, 16th Century decorated), suggesting that this may turn out to be one of the
Decorated on the flat cover with a seated elegant woman with technical hallmarks of this period (16th Century).
attendants in a flower-filled garden setting with bushes and rockwork
with a pavilion entrance nearby, three sides of the box and cover with
a continuous scene of birds and fruiting and blossoming branches in
three tiers, the exception to the front where the design is interrupted by
a single drawer with five-petalled flowers on a leafy tendril.
4 1/2 x 8 x 8in (11.4 x 20.3 x 20.3cm)

$6,000 - 9,000

明 十六世紀 黑漆螺鈿人物花鳥屜盒

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