SONG/YUAN DYNASTY (960-1368)

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.