Lot Essay
Cf. two examples, one a polychrome lacquer circular box and the other a red lacquer square box, both with the same yiwei (1595) cyclical date were exhibited by The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, and illustrated, Catalogue, nos. 68 and 69. It has been suggested that during this period different types of lacquer, carved red, yellow, polychrome and tianqi were abundantly produced in the official Wanli workshops, ibid., p. 134.
For a smaller dish of the same design bearing a slightly earlier cyclical date, 1592, formerly in the collection of Sir Harry Garner, see by Riddell, Dated Chinese Antiquities, pl. 166, p. 210. Cf. also a carved dish with a five-clawed dragon pursuing a flaming pearl amid waves from the Art Institute, Chicago, op. cit., pl. 168, p. 211.
(US$13,000-20,000)
For a smaller dish of the same design bearing a slightly earlier cyclical date, 1592, formerly in the collection of Sir Harry Garner, see by Riddell, Dated Chinese Antiquities, pl. 166, p. 210. Cf. also a carved dish with a five-clawed dragon pursuing a flaming pearl amid waves from the Art Institute, Chicago, op. cit., pl. 168, p. 211.
(US$13,000-20,000)