JAPON, ÎLES RYUKYU, ÉPOQUE EDO, XVIIIÈME SIÈCLE

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PLAT EN LAQUE INCRUSTÉ DE NACRE
JAPON, ÎLES RYUKYU, ÉPOQUE EDO, XVIIIÈME SIÈCLE
De forme circulaire, il est orné au centre de deux dragons inversés au corps sinueux à la poursuite de la perle enflammée parmi les nuages en volutes. Les bords intérieurs sont agrémentés de quatre cartouches polylobés abritant des objets précieux en réserve sur fond de croisillons.
Diamètre : 34,8 cm. (13 3⁄4 in.)

Provenance

Acquired on the French art market, Paris, 24 April 1992.

Further details

A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID LACQUER 'DRAGON' DISH
JAPAN, RYUKYU ISLANDS, EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

Large lacquer trays of this type were used by the Ryukyuan court in the 18th and 19th century and were also sent as 'tribute' to the court of the emperor of China. See a comparable piece in the Irving Collection published in James C. Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, pp. 96-97, no. 169. A larger dish with the same decoration was sold in our Paris rooms, 9 June 2021, lot 127.

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