A FINELY CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER DISH
A FINELY CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER DISH

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A FINELY CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER DISH
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The metal-bodied dish finely carved through to the star and wan diaper ground with a fruiting branch bearing three peaches, surrounded by five bats in flight and flowering sprays of peony, prunus, daisy, begonia, chrysanthemum, cherry blossom encircled by a band of shou below a ruyi head band, a composite floral scroll carved to the diamond diaper below a band of ruyi heads on the rim, exterior with a meander of various blossoming flowers, the foot with a keyfret band, the centre of the base lacquered black
12 7/8 in. (32.8 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

The present lot compares favourably to another dish in the Victoria and Albert Museum with a fluted sides carved in crisp high relief with floral sprigs and bats and with a similar border of ornamental ruyi lappets as a border illustrated by Edward F. Strange, Catalogue of Chinese Lacquer, Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Woodwork, London, 1925, pl. 17 and again E. Strange, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1926, pl. V. Comapare also a similar Qianlong-marked dish with deeper sides in the National Palac Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Gugong Qiqi Tezhan Mulu, A Special Exhibition of Lacquerwares in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1981, no. 45.

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