A RED AND BROWN-LACQUER FOLIATE DISH

SONG/YUAN DYNASTY (960-1368)

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A RED AND BROWN-LACQUER FOLIATE DISH
SONG/YUAN DYNASTY (960-1368)
The prunus-shaped dish has a flat, countersunk base and shallow rounded sides rising to a straight rim. It is lacquered in the interior in red and on the exterior in dark brown. The base is inscribed with an illegible mark in red lacquer.
7 in. (17.7 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box

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Lot Essay

A very similar dish, also with distinctive crackles to the lacquer around the edge of the dish, is in the Museum of Asian Art, San Francisco, and illustrated in Hai-Wai Yi-Chen, Chinese Art in Overseas Collections, Lacquerware, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1987, p. 52, no. 50, dated to the Yuan dynasty.

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