JOSEON DYNASTY (17TH-18TH CENTURY)

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A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID FOLIATE-SHAPED TRAY
JOSEON DYNASTY (17TH-18TH CENTURY)
Inlaid in the interior in mother-of-pearl with lotus arabesques on a black lacquer ground and varied on the black lacquer sides of the tray with two continuous bands of scrolling chrysanthemums, the foliate-shaped foot rim enclosing the base of black lacquer with streaks of red lacquer
17 1/8 in. (43.4 cm.) long
With wood box inscribed Karamono rinka raden kobon (Chinese mother-of-pearl lobed tray for incense)

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Lot Essay

The motif of scrolling peony is one of the characteristics of the mother-of-pearl inlaid lacquer works from Joseon Dynasty and had been depicted on many of lacquer works. For a similar tray with the same design in the collection of Metropolitan Museum, see J. Watt, et al., East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, 1991, p. 117, co. 152.

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