A RARE CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER HEXAFOIL DISH

PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF LACQUER

细节

A RARE CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER HEXAFOIL DISH
MING DYNASTY, 15TH/16TH CENTURY

Of bracket lobed sides, the central medallion well carved to depict a rustic scholar reading a book, seated beside a hoe under a willow tree amidst a rocky landscape, within a bracket-lobed frame, the cavetto of conforming shape detailed with a composite floral scroll, the reverse with a classic scroll carved through a thick layer of lacquer (rim repaired)
8 in. (19.8 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

拍品专文

A closely related barbed rimmed dish depicting a scholar seated below a pine tree is in the Tokugawa Art Museum and illustrated in Karamono, Imported Lacquerwork-Chinese, Korean and Ryukyuan, no. 2, Japan, 1997, no. 106.