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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A RARE CARVED RED AND BROWN LACQUER 'DRAGON' DISH
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER INCISED AND GILDED MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
Details
A RARE CARVED RED AND BROWN LACQUER 'DRAGON' DISH
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER INCISED AND GILDED MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
The lobed dish carved in the interior through the red layers with a single writhing dragon chasing a flaming pearl amidst clouds and flames reserved on a brown lacquer ground carved with billowing clouds, the cavetto carved with six alternating reserves of leafy peach and peony sprays, the exterior with six similar reserves of leafy floral sprays, the whole raised on a short footrim of conforming shape and carved with a border of key fret around the exterior
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) diam.
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER INCISED AND GILDED MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
The lobed dish carved in the interior through the red layers with a single writhing dragon chasing a flaming pearl amidst clouds and flames reserved on a brown lacquer ground carved with billowing clouds, the cavetto carved with six alternating reserves of leafy peach and peony sprays, the exterior with six similar reserves of leafy floral sprays, the whole raised on a short footrim of conforming shape and carved with a border of key fret around the exterior
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Hélène Lelianoff Collection, acquired in the 1940s.
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