A RARE BLACK-LACQUERED BRACKET- LOBED DISH
A RARE BLACK-LACQUERED BRACKET- LOBED DISH
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A RARE BLACK-LACQUERED BRACKET- LOBED DISH

SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY

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A RARE BLACK-LACQUERED BRACKET- LOBED DISH
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY
The bracket-lobed dish has shallow sides which rise to an everted, beaded rim, and stands on a recessed, flat base. It is lacquered all over in an attractive dark brown.
7 1⁄8 in. (18.2 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
Provenance
A Japanese private collection, by repute
Exhibited
Nishikawa Bijutsu ten, Tokyo, Form-Chinese Lacquer, March 2008, no. 3

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Lot Essay

The current dish is exceptionally well formed with crisp moulding, and is a beautiful example of fine lacquer wares of the Southern Song/early Yuan period. Its elegant form, with its everted and beaded rim, is pobably inspired by metal works dated to the Southern Song period, such as a set of four octa-bracket lobed silver dishes excavated in the Lujiashan hoard in Jiangxi, illustrated in Zhongguo jinyin boli falang quanji II, Hebei, 2004, no. 216, p. 121. Compare a slightly larger lacquer dish of identical form in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in Hai-Wai Yi-Chen, Lacquerware, Taipei, 1987, no. 42, p. 44, and one of nearly identical shape and size sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3204 (fig. 1).

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