A CARVED TIXI LACQUER FOLIATE DISH

MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

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A CARVED TIXI LACQUER FOLIATE DISH
MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The dish is carved through layers of black and red lacquer with a florette to the centre and four concentric bands of ruyi heads radiating outwards to the rim. The exterior is similarly carved with a band of ruyi heads above a straight foot.
10 5⁄8 in. (27 cm.) long, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1526

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Lot Essay

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.

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