YUAN/EARLY MING DYNASTY, SECOND HALF 14TH CENTURY

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A SMALL CARVED RED GURI LACQUER DISH
Yuan/early Ming dynasty, second half 14th century
The shallow body raised on a circular foot ring, the interior carved through red and black layers with six 'pommel scrolls' surrounding a central design formed by two curved triangular scrolls, with a band of compressed scrolls on the exterior, the black lacquer base inscribed with three characters, Wangcheng Zao; together with a carved guri lacquer octagonal box and cover, Qing dynasty, of petal-lobed outline; and a shallow carved red lacquer dish formed by a 15th century box bottom carved around the sides with 'flowers of the four seasons', the interior re-lacquered and carved with lychees
6¾, 6 5/8 and 7 3/8in. (17.1, 16.8 and 18.cm.) diam., boxes (3)

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拍品专文

The carved designs of the dish are quite similar to those seen on a large circular box illustrated by J. Watt and B. Ford, East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991, no. 10, which is dated late Yuan-early Ming period, 14th century. A similar motif can be seen in the center of the cover and the sides are also similarly carved. The author, James C.Y. Watt, mentions, p. 27, that the 'pommel scroll' motif derives from the shape of the ring-pommel on early Chinese swords, as illustrated in a line drawing, fig. 11, and that the Japanese term for the pattern is guri.