TWO MING CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER BOWLS
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
TWO MING CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER BOWLS

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TWO MING CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER BOWLS
JIAJING PERIOD (1522-1566)

The exterior of both deeply carved, the first bowl with sprays of pomegranates, peaches and lychees, against a diaper-ground, above lappets surrounding the ring foot, decorated with a band of key-fret, repeated below the everted mouth rim; the other similarly carved with two pairs of birds on fruiting branches on a diaper-ground (some repairs)
The larger 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm.) diam., box (2)

拍品專文

Compare to similar bowls, the first carved with lychees from the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, illustrated in Hai-wai Yi-chen - Chinese Art in Overseas Collection, Lacquerware, National Palace Museum, 1987, p. 86, no. 83; and a pair of bowls dated to the mid-Ming period from the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo Qiqi Quanji, vol. 5, Fujian meishu chubanshe, 1995, no. 74.