MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

The distinctive style of this current stembowl, with its dark reddish-brown colour, deep sharp cuts and unpolished corners, conforms to the style of a group of lacquer typified by scholars on the subject as Yunnan work in Southeast China, generally dated to the mid-Ming dynasty. See, for example, a lacquer dish attributed as Yunnan work by J. Watt and B. Ford in East Asian Lacquer - The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, New York, 1991, p. 91, pl. 31.