AN IMPORTANT EARLY MING CINNABAR LACQUER TRAY
A JAPANESE PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN IMPORTANT EARLY MING CINNABAR LACQUER TRAY

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AN IMPORTANT EARLY MING CINNABAR LACQUER TRAY
XUANDE INCISED AND GILT SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

The oval tray is formed with an unusual undulating rim in imitation of a lotus leaf, the undulation correspondingly continuous onto the flaring sides, crisply carved to the interior with two confronted chilong, their eyes picked out in black, one with a lingzhi sprig clenched in its jaw, their sinuous muscular bodies reserved on a ground of cresting and rolling waves, the well with billowing clouds reserved on a star pattern diaper ground, the reverse with the Eight Buddhist Emblems above a lotus flower scroll also reserved on a star pattern ground, the six-character mark inscribed in a vertical line to one side of the black lacquered base
9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box
來源
Property of one of the oldest private foundations in Japan, acquired in Tokyo between 1920 and 1930

拍品專文

An identical dish, possibly the pair to the present lot, is in the Palace Museum Collection in Beijing and is illustrated in Gugong Bowu Yuancang diaoqi, Wenwu Chubanshe, 1985, fig. 82 (fig. 1)

These two trays are most closely related to a third in the Tokyo Lacquer Research Institute of identical form and with identical treatment of the interior medallion, however the well and the exterior are gently incised to imitate the veins of a lotus leaf. It is illustrated in Chinese Lacquer, The Shoto Museum of Art 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Tokyo, 1991, no. 56, and again in Zhongguo qiqi quanji, vol. 5, Ming, Fujian Meishu Chubanshe, 1995, p. 41. Multiple views of the tray are illustrated by Regina Krahl and Brian Morgan, From Innovation to Conformity, Chinese Lacquer from the 13th to the 16th centuries, Bluett & Son, London, 1989, no. 18.

Compare also to the Xuande marked tray of this form in the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, decorated with a lotus bloom inscribed with a mantra in Sanskrit illustrated in Chinese Lacquer, The Shoto Museum of Art 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Tokyo, 1991, no. 40 and again in Gugong Bowu Yuancang diaoqi, Wenwu Chubanshe, 1985, fig. 83.

An oval Xuande tray with very similar confronted chilong, reserved against a lightly incised wave ground and with lingzhi shaped cloud scroll in the well is illustrated op. cit., fig. 84.

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