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MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY
Details
A Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Black Lacquer Barbed Dish
Ming dynasty, 15th-16th century
With shallow rounded sides raised on a slightly flared foot ring, the interior decorated with a scholar seated on the ground beneath a willow tree while his attendant stands nearby holding a book, below three shaped cartouches of fruiting sprays reserved on a ground of cell diaper and repeated as elongated sprays on the barbed, everted rim between three sets of detached blossoms, all in mother of pearl on a dark brown lacquer ground
7 1/2in. (19cm.) across
Falk Collection no. 572.
Ming dynasty, 15th-16th century
With shallow rounded sides raised on a slightly flared foot ring, the interior decorated with a scholar seated on the ground beneath a willow tree while his attendant stands nearby holding a book, below three shaped cartouches of fruiting sprays reserved on a ground of cell diaper and repeated as elongated sprays on the barbed, everted rim between three sets of detached blossoms, all in mother of pearl on a dark brown lacquer ground
7 1/2in. (19cm.) across
Falk Collection no. 572.
Provenance
Sotheby's London, 26 March 1963, lot 118, the collection of H.R.N. Norton, Esq.
John Sparks, London, September 1963.
John Sparks, London, September 1963.
Exhibited
The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, London, Oriental Ceramic Society, 1957, no. 274.
Lacquer: A Panorama of Asian Decorative Arts, Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1988.
Lacquer: A Panorama of Asian Decorative Arts, Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1988.