SOUTHERN SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY

The current dish is exceptionally well formed with crisp moulding, and is a beautiful example of fine lacquer wares of the Southern Song/early Yuan period. Its elegant form, with its everted and beaded rim, is pobably inspired by metal works dated to the Southern Song period, such as a set of four octa-bracket lobed silver dishes (fig.1) excavated in the Lujiashan hoard in Jiangxi, illustrated in Zhongguo jinyin boli falang quanji II, Hebei, 2004, no. 216, p. 121. Compare a slightly larger lacquer dish of identical form in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in Hai-Wai Yi-Chen, Lacquerware, Taipei, 1987, no. 42, p. 44 (fig. 2)

The Japanese wood box containing this lacquer dish has a red seal which reads 'The collection of Kosugi Genro-uemon'.