SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY (1127-1368)

This rare bracket-lobed dish was most likely inspired by contemporaneous lacquer dishes of the same shape such as the black lacquer example dated to the Yuan dynasty illustrated by Giuseppe Eskenazi, A Dealer’s Hand, London, 2012, p. 238, pl. 161 and another example sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 April 2001, lot 627. (Fig. 1) Similar barbed petals can also be seen on the black lacquer dish with eight rather than six petals illustrated by Lee King Tsi and Hu Shih Chang in the exhibition catalogue, Dragon and Phoenix: Chinese Lacquer, The Lee Family Collection, Tokyo, Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, 1990, p. 70, no. 22, dated to the Yuan dynasty.