CHINE, DYNASTIE YUAN (1279-1368)

The present lot may be compared to a closely-related octagonal 'bird and plum blossom' mother-of-pearl-inlaid tray dated to the 14th century from the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in East Asia Lacquer:The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, cat. no. 55.