A FINELY CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER ‘SHOU’ DISH
A FINELY CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER ‘SHOU’ DISH
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A FINELY CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER ‘SHOU’ DISH

JIAJING INCISED AND GILT SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

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A FINELY CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER ‘SHOU’ DISH
JIAJING INCISED AND GILT SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
6 5⁄8 in. (16.8 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare to a carved cinnabar lacquer dish of very similar decoration and form, also bearing Jiajing six-character mark, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 November 2024, lot 1426. A comparable polychrome lacquer dish of similar decoration and form, also bearing Jiajing six-character mark is in the Ashmolean Museum Collection, illustrated by Impey, O. R., and M. Tregear, Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese Lacquer from the Ashmolean Museum Collections, Oxford, 1983, p. 2, Catalogue, no. 2 on p. viii.

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