{"id":18960,"date":"2023-02-27T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.littletonandhennessy.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=18960"},"modified":"2023-03-02T19:58:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T19:58:26","slug":"an-extremely-rare-and-important-octagonal-lacquer-bird-plate-with-zhang-cheng-makers-mark-yuan-dynasty-14th-century","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.littletonandhennessy.com\/zh-hans\/product\/an-extremely-rare-and-important-octagonal-lacquer-bird-plate-with-zhang-cheng-makers-mark-yuan-dynasty-14th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"An extremely rare and important octagonal lacquer &#8216;bird&#8217; plate with &#8216;Zhang Cheng&#8217; maker&#8217;s mark (Yuan dynasty, 14th century)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dimensions:<\/strong> 30.5cm diameter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Provenance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A private Japanese collection<\/p>\n<p>Michael H. Healy, acquired in the 1990s<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Carter, 2015<\/p>\n<p>A private Asian collection<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibited:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Honolulu Academy of Art, 2002<\/p>\n<p>China Institute of America, New York, 2005<\/p>\n<p>Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2006<\/p>\n<p>Museum f\u00fcr Lackkunst, M\u00fcnster, 2007<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Illustrated:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Masterpieces of Chinese Lacquer from the Mike Healy Collection\u2019, Julia White, Honolulu Academy of Art, 2006, p. 52-53<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The octagonal shaped plate exquisitely carved with a naturalistically executed border of seasonal flowers, around a central scene of paired birds amidst rocks and trees. The band of red lacquer flowers is deeply carved to reveal an unusual yellow lacquer background. The central scene of two birds on a rock and tree branch, surrounded by bamboo and maple is set on a \u2018air diaper\u2019 pattern, adding depth to the plate. The base of the plate is inscribed with the characters \u2018Zhang Cheng\u2019, one of the most famous lacquer carvers of the Yuan period from Yanghui in Xietang, Zhejiang Province.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Compare a plate featuring two birds among flowers and leaves with the same detailed characteristics and quality of carving, also marked \u2018Zhang Cheng\u2019 from the Irving Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number 2011.120.1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimensions: 30.5cm diameter &nbsp; Provenance: A privat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18846,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[796],"product_tag":[800,360,363,799,801,798,810],"class_list":{"0":"post-18960","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-tefaf-maastricht-2023-chinese-lacquer","7":"product_tag-healy","8":"product_tag-imperial","9":"product_tag-lacquer","10":"product_tag-tefaf","11":"product_tag-tefaf-2023","12":"product_tag-tefaf-maastricht","13":"product_tag-zhang-cheng","14":"has-post-title","15":"has-post-date","16":"has-post-category","17":"has-post-tag","18":"has-post-comment","19":"has-post-author","20":"","22":"first","23":"instock","24":"shipping-taxable","25":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An extremely rare and important octagonal lacquer &#039;bird&#039; 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