A RARE CINNABAR LACQUER OVAL TRAY

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A RARE CINNABAR LACQUER OVAL TRAY
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

Deeply carved to the central panel with a scholar reading while seated on a veranda overlooking the inner courtyard beside his study with curtains drawn to reveal a desk on which is placed a censer and an arrow vase before a large screen, a scholar with his attendant carrying a qin arrive in the garden, the scene framed with ornamental rocks, and pine and wutong, the cavetto carved with a peony scroll growing lush leaves, the reverse with a classic scroll, the base lacquered black
10 in. (25.5 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

This lacquer tray can best be compared to another example of closely related subject, but possibly slightly later in date, illustrated by Bluett & Sons, From Innovation to Conformity, Chinese Lacquer from the 13th to 16th Centuries, London, 1989, no. 8 and again in the Shoto Museum of Art exhibition Catalogue, Chinese Lacquerware, 1991, no. 41.

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