A RARE BLACK LACQUER LOBED DISH

SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)

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A RARE BLACK LACQUER LOBED DISH
Song dynasty (960-1279)
The body flaring widely from a shallow ring foot before rising in a gentle curve to the metal-bound lobed rim, covered allover in black lacquer now faded to brown thinning to a paler tone on the six slender ribs dividing the lobes on the interior, with a rectangular seal mark in red lacquer on the base
6 7/8in. (17.4cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance

Jean-Pierre Dubosc Collection, Kamakura and Paris.

Exhibited

Chinese lacquer from the Jean-Pierre Dubosc Collection and Others, Eskenazi Ltd., London, December 1992, no. 3.

Lot Essay

The indistinct seal mark on the base may have been added in Japan.

A similar dish in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, illustrated by Lee Yu-kuan, Oriental Lacquer Art, New York, 1972, p. 112, no. 48, is described as having a red lacquer seal on the base. Two other similar dishes are illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, So Gen no bijutsu, Osaka Municipal Art Museum, 1978, nos. 3:2 and 3:3. And another with slightly more rounded lobes is illustrated in Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1989, no. 352.

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