A BLACK LACQUER SQUARE DISH

SONG/YUAN DYNASTY (960-1368)

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A BLACK LACQUER SQUARE DISH
SONG/YUAN DYNASTY (960-1368)
The dish is formed with four everted sides with rounded corners rising from a flat square base, and covered in a lustrous brownish-black lacquer.
7 in. (17.5 cm.) square, Japanese box

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Lot Essay

Compare to a very similar black lacquer square dish in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the exhibition China at the Inception of the Second Millennium: Art and Culture of the Sung Dynasty, 960-1279, Taipei, 2000, p. 165, no. III-19, which is made with the dry lacquer technique and has been dated to Song/Yuan period.

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