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A CHALCEDONY AGATE QUATREFOIL DISH, WITH FITTED BOX The quatrefoil and pentafoil shape was a popular one from the
14th-17th Century Tang dynasty onwards and appears to have reached an apogee in
The highly attractive translucent stone superbly carved as a shallow use during the Song and Yuan dynasty. It can be found in at least
petal-form dish with four delicately pointed petals at the cardinal points three other media, including metal, lacquer jade and ceramic. It was
with each lobe meticulously polished to form delicate ribs on the particularly popular in Dingyao and Yueyao kilns. For a group of late
interior sides where the petals meet, the exterior similarly treated and Tang and Song petal-form white wares, see J.J. Lally & Co., Early
ending at a quatrefoil-shaped foot mirroring the rim, attractive circular Chinese White Wares, The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection, New York,
and striated bands throughout the stone; with a fitted box. 2015, no’s 13-16.
8 1/4in (20.9cm) across
For a larger but almost identical lozenge-shaped brown lacquer tray
$10,000 - 15,000 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, dating to the Yuan
Dyansty (14th Century) with similar shallow everted rim and delicate
十四至十七世紀 瑪瑙花口盤 ribs where the petals meet, see www.metmuseum.org - lacquer,
accession no. 2001.535; and also exhibited in ‘Red and Black:Chinese
Lacquer, 13th-16th Century’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
Provenance
Christie’s, South Kensington, London, Oriental and Islamic Ceramics York, September 2011-June 2012. Another cinnabar lacquer tixi
plate of similar outline and called a ‘water-chestnut’ flower-form, see
and Works of Art, 24 April 1997, lot 29, color pl. 1.
Masterpieces of Chinese Carved Lacquer Ware in the National Palace
來源 Museum, Taipei, 1971, no. 15.

佳士得南肯辛頓，1997年4月24日，拍品編號29
For another lacquer dish of similar shape that is undated but displayed
with materials mostly dating to the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties,
For a rare agate ‘mallow’-shaped bowl dated to the Song Dynasty
and with Ming silver mounts, see Bonhams, Hong Kong, 24 June see International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts,
2017, lot 103. The stone is of the same golden-yellow, honey-brown, London, 1935-36, p. 269, no.3011. The shape can also be compared
to a Korean Lacquer dish in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
reddish-caramel tone with circular and striated bands throughout the
stone. It also has delicately-cut lobes. For another see Compendium of York, see www.metmuseum.org - lacquer, accession Number:
2015.500.3.9., which dates to from the Joseon dynasty, 15th–16th
Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 5, Tang, Song, Liao, Jin and
Yuan Dynasties, Beijing, 2011, pp.82-83, pls. 73-74. A similarly-sized century and is inlaid with mother-of-pearl floral scrolls.
circular petal-form agate bowl from the A. Benaki Collection, Athens, For a smaller Yuan Dynasty six-lobed dish carved in a similar fashion
from nephrite jade from the collection of Dr and Mrs. Cheng Te-K’un,
dated to the Song Dynasty, is published in International Exhibition
of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-36, p. 100, see Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1973-74/1974-75,
London, 1976, in a special edition for the exhibition ‘Chinese Jade
no. 1031. Of slightly later date, a lobed octafoil agate bowl dated to
the Kangxi or Yonzheng period was sold at Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, throughout the ages’, organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain
3 October 2018, lot 3605, which bears comparison with a similar and The Oriental Ceramic Society at the Victoria and Albert Museum,
1st May - 22nd June 1975, p. 107, no. 352.
example in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei and
illustrated in Harmony and Integrity. The Yongzheng Emperor and his
Times, Taipei, 2009, no. II-63

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