A LARGE MING POLYCHROME LACQUER RECTANGULAR TRAY

MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

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A LARGE MING POLYCHROME LACQUER RECTANGULAR TRAY
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
The interior of the rectangular tray is finely carved with scholars, seated within a pavilion beside the river, observing ducks swimming among lotus flowers. Alongside a far embankment is a fisherman seated on a sampan as if playing his flute. The surrounding sloping sides are carved with composite flowers. The exteriors are decorated with chrysanthemum blooms borne on an undulating vine. The underside of the tray is lacquered black.
13 1/2 in. (34 cm.) long, Japanese wood box

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Although no tray of this rare design appears to have been published, an earlier Xuande-marked carved cinnabar square tray depicting the Five Sages shares a similar theme of figures inside a pavilion against different grounds of air, water and land-diaper. The sides of that example are also surrounded with dense floral designs. See Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, The Complete Collection of the Treasures of the Palace Museum, p. 78, pl. 55. Two further carved cinnabar examples of similar rectangular form and figural theme, dating to mid-Ming period, depicting a figure gathering herb and fishermen boating in river, are illustrated in Carved Lacquer in the Collection of The Palace Museum, Beijing, 1985, pls. 140-141.