A FINE CARVED AND INSCRIBED BURLWOOD TRAY

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A FINE CARVED AND INSCRIBED BURLWOOD TRAY
LATE MING/EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

Of irregular shape, exquisitely carved in shallow relief to simulate a woven wicker basket with a broad base and shallow rounded sides, the interior detailed with overlapping radiating ribs forming the framework, finely detailed with lattices to imitate the weave, fastened at intervals to a bamboo-form mouth rim, the exterior similarly carved except for the underside carved with an inscription in cursive script, followed by a three-character sealmark, Wen Zhenheng, within an irregular single outline
7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) across

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The short text does not appear to have been recorded but it is a literary praise of an ethereal object with allegorical references to the beauty of a woman's heart and the serenity of a Daoist. The sealmark is the name of Wen Zhenheng (1585-1645), the great-great grandson of the important painter of the Wu school, Wen Zhenming (1470-1559), whose writing Zhang wu zhi, 'Treatise on Superfluous Things', provided later scholars with an insight of Ming life-style and material possessions.

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