A RARE MING CARVED BLACK TIXI LACQUER OCTAFOIL DISH

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A RARE MING CARVED BLACK TIXI LACQUER OCTAFOIL DISH
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

The shallow dish is formed with eight bracket lobes, well carved in deep relief through layers of dark brown and red lacquer with four concentric bands of ruyi scrolls radiating outwards from the central four-point ruyi-motif flowerhead, the underside with further ruyi-heads enclosing the foot rim of conforming shape, the base with dark brown lacquer
10 1/2 in. (26.6 cm.) wide, box

Lot Essay

An identical dish in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo Qiqi Quanji, 1995, pl. 38; while another from the Swedish Royal Collection is illustrated by J. Wirgin, 'Some Chinese Carved Lacquer of the Yuan and Ming Periods', B.M.F.E.A. Stockholm, no. 44, 1972, pl. 8, no. 10, together with related boxes, pls. 6 and 7, nos. 7 and 8. A slightly smaller dish inscribed with a Xuande mark, was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 30 April 2001, lot 636.

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