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.