A VERY RARE LARGE MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK LACQUER LOBED TRAY

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A VERY RARE LARGE MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK LACQUER LOBED TRAY
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

The tray is formed with lobed sides conforming on the interior, the fluted cavetto decorated with birds and phoenix in various attitudes of flight above stylised floral blooms within a bracket-lobed cartouche against a diaper-ground, similarly decorated on the exterior, raised on a high lobed foot designed with pairs of animals, including horses, qilin, deer, tigers, elephants, rabbits and Buddhist lions, in landscapes within cartouches, age cracks (losses and repairs)
13 3/4 in. (35.7 cm.) across, box

Provenance

Manno Art Museum, no. 1111

Lot Essay

Compare similarly decorated floral and cartouche designs on shaped boxes dated to the Yuan dynasty, included in the exhibition Mother-of-Pearl inlay in Chinese Lacquer Art, Tokyo National Museum, 1979, and illustrated in the Catalogue, pp. 37-41, nos. 8 and 9.

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