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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 MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND BLACK LACQUER A MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND BROWN LACQUER
RECTANGULAR TRAY RECTANGULAR TRAY
Late Ming/early Qing Dynasty 17th Century
The center with a large peony spray dividing four smaller and differing A lengthy inscription, a section from an essay, inlaid to the tray and
leafy flower sprays at the quadrants, bordered by a thin band that also signed Gu Lin (Old Forest), possibly an art name, all below a sloping
bisects the corners, terminating in cloud lappets, the rounded everted rim with basket-weave panels divided by an inlaid flower-head design,
rim further inlaid with various single flowerhead sprays, mirrored to the the exterior plain.
exterior, the base lacquered red. 15in (38.1cm) across
14 3/4in (37.4cm) across
$2,000 - 3,000
$2,800 - 4,500
十七世紀 漆嵌螺鈿詩文長方盤
明晚期/清早期 黑漆嵌螺鈿牡丹圖長方盤
A square tray inlaid in mother-of-pearl with scholars under bamboo
For an extremely similar tray of identical size and using the same cloud is illustrated by Edward F. Strange, Catalogue of Chinese Lacquer,
lappets at the corners in the Palace Museum, see Gugong Bowuyuan Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1925, pl. VII, no. 17. A tray of
Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji (Complete Collection of Treasures of slightly smaller size but with identical borders is illustrated By Michael
the Palace Museum), Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, C. Hughes, An Important Collection of Chinese, Korean and Ryukyuan
Hong Kong, 2006, p.139, no. 102. Lacquer, New York, 2006, p. 56, no. 41.

For a cabinet dated Ming dynasty, 16th/17th century, and utilizing
remarkably similar inlays on its border edges and large pieces of shell
on the central flower sprays, see Gerard Hawthorne Ltd,, Oriental Art,
Oriental Works of Art, London, 2007, no. 3.

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