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PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W. MOORE COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER
A carved cinnabar lacquer 'spring-blossom collecting' rectangular tray
Ming dynasty, 16th CenturyWith shallow rounded sides and canted corners, carved in a flat-surfaced low-relief at the center with a scholar and his assistant carrying an early prunus blossom branch in a rocky setting with pine, bamboo and prunus blossoms set within an ogival central panel which is reserved against a larger rectangular panel with a cloud motif on a cell ground, the interior up-curving sides carved in a more dense relief with channelled grooving to emphasize the trailing floral design, the exterior with a continuous single register of key-pattern above a thin line of simply-scooped semi-circle lappets, a short foot rim and a plain black-lacquered base 14in (35.5cm) across
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明 十六世紀 剔紅如意花卉紋人物長方盤For another Ming vessel displaying the same rather unusual 'channelled' carving of the floral design displayed on the interior sides of our example, see Zhu Jiajin and Xia Gengqi, Zhongguo qiqi quanji. Ming [Lacquer treasures from China. Ming dynasty], vol. 5, Fuzhou, Fujian, 1995, p. 90, no. 88.For a polychrome lacquer painted tray bearing a Wanli reign mark (1573-1620), with identical layout of the design, with a central ogival panel reserved on a cell-ground and bordered with scrolling foliage, see also James C.Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, New York, 1991, pp. 120-121, no. 51.
