CHINE, FIN DE LA DYNASTIE SONG - DYNASTIE YUAN, FIN DU XIIIEME SIECLE

For lacquer ware bearing similar designs, see Nishida Hiroko (intro.), The Colors and Forms of Song and Yuan China Featuring Lacquerwares, Ceramics, and Metalwares (Tokyo, 2004), no. 68, a Southern Song circular tray, and no. 71, an oval tray dated Southern Song to Yuan; Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties: The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum (Hong Kong, 2006), no. 10, p. 16, a cupstand dated Yuan ; and James C. Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection (New York, 1991), no. 7, p. 51, an oval dish dated first half of the 14th century.

A radiocarbon test is available on request dating the dish to 1270-1299 and is consitent with our dating.