A VERY RARE CARVED YELLOW AND CINNABAR LACQUER 'DRAGON' CIRCULAR TRIPOD TRAY

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A VERY RARE CARVED YELLOW AND CINNABAR LACQUER 'DRAGON' CIRCULAR TRIPOD TRAY
JAIJING INCISED AND GILDED SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

The interior intricately carved through the brownish-yellow lacquer to the red ground with a dense pattern of nine interlaced sinuous kui dragons their bodies dissolving into ruyi scrolls within a circular border, the cavetto decorated with five cartouches, each enclosing a striding dragon, reserved on a diaper-ground, the rounded sides of the exterior carved with ruyi clouds, supported on three evenly spaced cabriole legs, each carved with a stylised taotie mask, the base lacquered black, bearing the reign mark incised along the inner left rim, raised on an elaborately carved openwork wood stand (extremity nicks and minor losses)
13 5/8 in. (34.5 cm.) diam., box

來源

Manno Art Museum, no. 1122

出版

Selected Masterpieces of the Manno Collection, Japan, 1988, pl. 73

拍品專文

No other example of this unusual interlaced hydra pattern from the Ming period appears to be published. Compare similar treatment of the carving and pattern with a light-brown lacquer dish dated to the early Qing period, illustrated in Carved Lacquer in the Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1985, no. 267.