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MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
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A Well-Carved Red Lacquer Bowl
Ming Dynasty, 16th Century
The exterior finely carved with figures in a landscape, including two scholars and an attendant standing on one side of a bridge, with a farmer and a water buffalo on the other side, a boy playing a flute riding atop a water buffalo followed by its calf, and a man seated in a pavilion, all surrounded by various trees and reserved on diaper grounds, the concave base carved with a chilong grasping a lingzhi sprig against a diaper ground, the interior lacquered black
4.1/8in. (10.4cm.) diam.
Ming Dynasty, 16th Century
The exterior finely carved with figures in a landscape, including two scholars and an attendant standing on one side of a bridge, with a farmer and a water buffalo on the other side, a boy playing a flute riding atop a water buffalo followed by its calf, and a man seated in a pavilion, all surrounded by various trees and reserved on diaper grounds, the concave base carved with a chilong grasping a lingzhi sprig against a diaper ground, the interior lacquered black
4.1/8in. (10.4cm.) diam.