MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY

Similar decoration of a bird in flight amidst lotus can be seen on a pentagonal red lacquer box dated Ming dynasty, 15th century, in the Tokugawa Art Musuem, illustrated in Karamono, Imported Lacquerwork – Chinese, Korean and Ryukyuan (Okinawa), Nagoya, Japan, 1997, p. 27, no. 27.