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A RARE CARVED RED LACQUER OVAL 'PEACH' DISH
LATE YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The base is inscribed Yang Mao zao (made by Yang Mao)
8 in. (20.3 cm.) long, Japanese double-wood box

$60,000-80,000
The inscription on the interior of the foot refers to Yang Mao, a lacquer
artisan famous for his carved red lacquerware, who is mentioned in Cao
Zhao's 1388 Gegu Yaolun (The Essential Criteria of Antiques) as being a
pupil of Yang Hui of Xitang at the end of the Yuan dynasty. See, Sir Percival
David, Chinese Connoisseurship, The Ko Ku Yao Lun: The Essential Criteria
of Antiquities, London 1971, p. 146. A carved red lacquer zhadou with the
mark Yang mao zao incised on the side of the foot, with similarly rendered
leaves, is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing (www.dpm.org.cn/
collection/lacquerware/29431.html) A red lacquer tray dating to the Yuan (inscription on base)
dynasty, also incised with the mark of Yang Mao, sold at Christie's Hong
Kong, 30 May 2005, lot 1335.

The motif of flowering peach trees on lacquer is extremely rare and no other
oval dishes with this motif appear to have been published, although the
dish compares well stylistically to other late Yuan and early Ming carved
lacquerwares. Compare a red lacquer oval tray carved with leafy grape vines,
with a scroll pattern on the reverse that is similar to the present tray, dated
to the Yongle period, the Qing Court collection, Palace Museum, Beijing,
illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum -
45 - Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2006, Hong
Kong, p. 37, no. 23.

元末明׀ǎ十ो 十̩ˠ紀ǎץ紅桃紋盤
款 Ǚ楊茂造ǚ

(with box)