AN UNUSUAL BLACK AND RED LACQUER RECTANGULAR TRAY

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AN UNUSUAL BLACK AND RED LACQUER RECTANGULAR TRAY
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

Well carved through the black lacquer to the red ground, with three Buddhist lions gambolling around a brocade ball amidst ruyi clouds, surrounded by the bajixiang supported on lotus blooms borne on densely scrolling vines, all enclosed within a bracket-lobed cartouche, the rest of the tray decorated with boughs of peony blossoms and leaves rising up the sides and repeated around the exterior
17 1/2 in. (44.4 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box

Provenance

A Japanese private collector

Lot Essay

Compare the central design of lions with that on a cinnabar lacquer tray, from the Museum Yamato Bunkakan, Nara, included in the exhibition, Carved Lacquer, Tokugawa Art Museum and Nezu Insititute of Fine Arts, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 181.

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