YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY

細節

AN EARLY MING CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER DISH
YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY
With shallow rounded sides, the interior deeply carved and incised through to a yellow ground with a fruiting melon, the three fruits issuing from a dense leafy stem, the reverse with classic scroll, the interior of the base lacquered dark brown
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam.

來源

A. Giuganino Collection, Rome

出版

Chinese Lacquer from the Jean-Pierre Dubosc Collection and Others, London, 1992, p. 58, no. 20.

展覽

Eskenazi, London, Chinese Lacquer from the Jean-Pierre Dubosc Collection and Others, 8-22 December 1992, no. 20

注意事項

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拍品專文

The depiction of melons or gourds on early Chinese carved lacquer is very rare. They begin to appear on blue and white porcelains in the Yuan dynasty and are included in the decoration of a number of large blue and white porcelain dishes. One such dish is in the collection of the British Museum (illustrated by Jessica Harrison-Hall in Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, BMP, London, 2001, p. 79, no. 1:39). Another is in the collection of the Topkapi Saray, Istanbul (illustrated by J. Ayers and R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol II, Philip Wilson, London, 1986, p. 392, no. 561). The same collection contains a particularly fine facetted double gourd vase (illustrated ibid., p. 394, no. 576), on one of the upper facets of which three melons or gourds very similar to those on the current lacquer dish are shown.

A Yuan dynasty, 14th century carved lacquer dish of similar type, although with three large flowers and buds, which was formerly in the collection of Lady David, was illustrated by Sherman E. Lee and Wai-kam Ho in Chinese Art Under the Mongold: The Yuan Dynasty (1276-1366), Cleveland, 1968, no. 294.