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PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER
A tixi black and cinnabar lacquer alms bowl or weiqi box
Ming DynastyThe deep steep-sided tapering bowl (or possibly counter box) with a rounded shoulder and deeply carved with V-shaped channels through multiple layers of black and cinnabar lacquer with two registers of large pommel scrolls stopping neatly at a plain band at the incurving rim and above a single register of smaller tailed-scrolls and a plain band at the incurving foot. 5in (12.7cm) across, later Japanese silver cover
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明 剔犀如意雲紋小罐 後配日本銀蓋For early 15th century alms bowls in cloisonne, see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, The Speelman Collection II, 3 October 2018, lot 3411 and another sold at Christie's, Hong Kong, The Imperial Sale, 28 May 2007, lot 1435. For other later lacquer alms bowls of differing design, see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat, 8 October 2009, lot 1828, itself related to another illustrated in Carved Lacquer In the Palce Museum, Beijing, 1985, pp. 354-355, fig. 1.For a later imperial blue and white porcelain alms bowl with a register of ruyi-heads at the shoulder which bear a passing resemblance to the pommel-scrolls on ours, see Christie's, New York, 23 March 2011, lot 1678.By Buddhist law, the 'alms' bowl is the only item a monk is allowed to possess. The begging bowl (bo) was a monk's necessity. A number of Chinese emperor's were devout Buddhists, and numerous Buddhist implements and artworks were created under their direction. Many examples of alms bowls made during these different reigns in materials as different as jade, cloisonné enamel and lacquer are well recorded.The shape of this elegant, volumetric bowl, with its simple, bold form is probably derived from metalwork introduced from Persia or Central Asia. The style of bowl was originally used in Indian Buddhist practice. The possibility that this may indeed be a weiqi counter box rather than an alms bowl should not be discounted however, as evidenced by the addition of a simple cover, in this case a Japanese silver one that can simply transform its use.
