.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
Lot Essay
The relatively freely-arranged lotus scroll depicted on the border of the present dish can be compared to the floral scrolls seen on fourteenth century blue and white porcelain dishes. Floral scrolls on lacquer dishes of this type, but of later periods, are typically denser and more formally arranged.
A lacquer dish with related lotus scroll, dated to the 14th century, is illustrated by Tokyo National Museum in Chūgoku No Raden (Mother of Pearl inlay in Chinese lacquer art), Tokyo, 1981, no. 29.
See, also, a lacquer box dated to the Yuan dynasty, decorated with a more elongated flower scroll but with a similarly free positioning of the flower heads, illustrated by G. Kuwayama in Far Eastern Lacquer, Los Angeles, 1982, p. 68, no. 13.
For a later mother-of-pearl-inlaid square dish with a denser floral scroll, dated to 16th century, see H. Garner, Chinese and Associated Lacquer from the Garner Collection, London, 1973, no. 122, also published in H. Garner, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, pl. 171.
A lacquer dish with related lotus scroll, dated to the 14th century, is illustrated by Tokyo National Museum in Chūgoku No Raden (Mother of Pearl inlay in Chinese lacquer art), Tokyo, 1981, no. 29.
See, also, a lacquer box dated to the Yuan dynasty, decorated with a more elongated flower scroll but with a similarly free positioning of the flower heads, illustrated by G. Kuwayama in Far Eastern Lacquer, Los Angeles, 1982, p. 68, no. 13.
For a later mother-of-pearl-inlaid square dish with a denser floral scroll, dated to 16th century, see H. Garner, Chinese and Associated Lacquer from the Garner Collection, London, 1973, no. 122, also published in H. Garner, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, pl. 171.