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PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER
A Ming carved cinnabar circular 'Crane or Egret' dish
15th CenturyThe shallow rounded sides carved to the interior in low relief with a crane or egret with out-stretched wings amidst large full-faced peony flower-heads and peony buds on a curiously spiky and wavy-edged leaf backdrop with large gaps revealing the pale honey-beige ground beneath, the exterior with composite floral ground with peony, chrysanthemum, lotus and plum blossom, also with large channelling revealing the honey-beige layer beneath, and above a sixteen-sided polygon edge at the base (missing foot). 7 7/8in (20cm) diameter
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明 十五世紀 剔紅花鳥紋圓盤For a larger black lacquer dish dated to the Yuan dynasty, see Klaus J. Brandt, Chinesische Lackarbeiten, Linden-Museum Stuttgart, 1988, pp. 74-75, no. 28. It also shares some of the idiosyncratic treatment of some of the leaves of our example, which also forms a wave-like edge below the plain rounded rim. It is centered by two crane or egrets set amongst dense peony sprays. The reverse side however has a design of classic scroll and not the composite floral scroll of ours. A circular box and cover in cinnabar lacquer also decorated with two crane or egrets amidst peony is illustrated in 2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong and the Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993, pp. 78-79, no. 34, and bears comparison. See also, James C.Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, pp.72-73, no. 21, for a larger cinnabar lacquer dish dated to the late 14th-early 15th century carved in a similar style with two peacocks amidst peony, though lacking the wavy-edge leaves of the aforementioned items.
