MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

An identical dish in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo Qiqi Quanji, 1995, pl. 38; while another from the Swedish Royal Collection is illustrated by J. Wirgin, ‘Some Chinese Carved Lacquer of the Yuan and Ming Periods’, B.M.F.E.A. Stockholm, no. 44, 1972, pl. 8, no. 10, together with related boxes, pls. 6 and 7, nos. 7 and 8. A slightly smaller dish inscribed with a Xuande mark, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 April 2001, lot 636.