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The Luxury of Chinese Lacquer

The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF)
12th–21st March 2010

6. A Tianqi Lacquer Offering Tray And Cover, With Three Associated Stem Bowls

The Tray Yongle Period or Earlier, The Bowls Kangxi

The tray and cover of rectangular shape, decorated with filled-in lacquer and gilt on the cover with six blossoming lotuses in profile centering on two full-frontal lotuses, each colored in vermillion bearing one of Eight Buddhist Emblems in yellow. The blooms are borne on curled leafy tendrils decorated in yellow, vermillion and two tones of green, all against a dark brown background. The sides of the box are decorated with twenty further smaller blooms on curled stems. The similarly arranged lotuses on the tray are all full-frontal, with the outer six each enclosing a circular aperture. The foot of the tray is pierced with eight ruyi-shaped apertures between two parallel lotus scrolls.

14.7 cm. high x 43.7 cm. wide x 29 cm. deep

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Exhibition catalogue:

  1. A Painted Brown Lacquer Circular Basin

  2. A Black Tixi Lacquer Circular Dish

  3. A Magnificent Tianqi Lacquer 'Daoist Paradise' Cabinet

  4. A Carved Black Lacquer Reversible Sutra Stand

  5. A Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Tray

  6. A Tianqi Lacquer Offering Tray and Cover, with three Asociated Stem Bowls

  7. A Carved Cinnabar Lacquer three-tiered Box and Stand

  8. A Tianqi Lacquer 'Dragon' Cabinet

  9. A Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Circular Box and Cover

  10. A Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Brush and Cover

  11. A Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Oval Dish

  12. A Small Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Pouring Cup

  13. A XIipi Lacquer Box and Cover

  14. A Carved Cinnabar and Black Lacquer Miniature Stand

  15. A Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Miniature Rouleau Vase

  16. A Set of Four Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Panels

  17. A Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Chest

  18. A Pair of Black-Ground Polychrome Painted Lacquer Circular Dishes

  19. A Bone-Inlaid Black Lacquer Document Box

  20. A Bone-Inlaid Black Lacquer Chest

  21. A Bone-Inlaid Black Lacquer Kang Table

  22. A Bone-Inlaid Black Lacquer Box

  23. A Bone-Inlaid Black Lacquer Stepped Box

  24. A Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Black Lacquer Table Screen

  25. A Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Lacquer and Jade-inset Ornament

  26. A Carved three-coloured Lacquer Hexafoil Jardiniere

  27. An Inlaid Black Lacquer Chest


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