A Rare Pair of Painted Lacquer Dishes, Pan

HAN DYNASTY

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A Rare Pair of Painted Lacquer Dishes, Pan
Han Dynasty
Each shallow dish painted in red and black with slender swirling clouds reserved on a reddish-brown ground within a broad brick-red band set below a band of lozenge pattern in the well, the narrow, flat rim and the outer edge of the rim painted in pencilled line with conjoined spirals and T-forms, the upper register of the exterior decorated with a band of long-tailed birds
86in. (21.4cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Compare the dish of this shape with some of the same decorative motifs on the rim, but differently decorated on the interior, illustrated by K. J. Brandt, Chinesische Lackarbeiten, Linden-Museum Stuttgart, 1988, no. 14, p. 55 (bottom).

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