YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

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A VERY RARE CARVED RED LACQUER BRACKET-LOBED DISH
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The dish is carved through layers of red lacquer to depict a single sprig bearing blossoming peach flowers and leaves against a floret- diaper ground, the reverse side with xiangcao scroll. The plain base is applied with black lacquer.
7 1/8 in. (18.2 cm.) wide

Exhibited

The Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, 1990, Dragon and Phoenix, Chinese Lacquer Ware, The Lee Family Collection, Catalogue, no. 36
The Shoto Museum of Art, Shibuya, Japan, 1991, Chinese Lacquerware, Catalogue, no. 42

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Lot Essay

Carved lacquer dishes decorated with a single sprig from the Yuan dynasty are relatively rare. One close comparison is a circular red lacquer dish carved with a single sprig bearing peaches and flowers, also against a floret-diaper ground, and exhibited in The Nezu Institute of Fine Arts exhibition, Tokyo, 2004, The Colors and Forms of Song and Yuan China, Catalogue, no. 96.

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