Karamono: Heirlooms of Chinese Art from Medieval Japan
Karamono: Heirlooms of Chinese Art from Medieval Japan
Property from a Japanese private collection | 日本私人收藏
A very rare 'qiangjin' and 'tianqi' lacquer chrysanthemum-shaped 'dragon' dish, Mark and period of Jiajing | 明嘉靖 戧金填漆雙龍捧壽菊瓣盤 《大明嘉靖年製》款
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October 9, 03:24 AM GMT
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 HKD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Japanese private collection
A very rare 'qiangjin' and 'tianqi' lacquer chrysanthemum-shaped 'dragon' dish,
Mark and period of Jiajing
日本私人收藏
明嘉靖 戧金填漆雙龍捧壽菊瓣盤 《大明嘉靖年製》款
Japanese wood box
25.7 cm
Zonsei: Shitsugei no Irodori [Carving the Sky, Painting the Stars: Treasure of Decorated Chinese Lacquer], Gotoh Museum, Tokyo, 2014, cat. no. 53.
《存星：漆芸の彩り》，五島美術館，東京，2014年，編號53
Compare a closely related dish of this design in the Yuki Museum of Art, Osaka, illustrated in Selected Collection of Yuki Museum of Art, Osaka, 2007, pl. 134. Jiajing lacquer dishes of this type are also known in other designs with slight variations: see an example in the Beijing Palace Museum, depicted with a dragon and phoenix, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Shanghai, 2006, pl. 154, together with another example decorated with a flower surrounded by a dragon, pl. 159; another in the Taipei Palace Museum, published in Chen Huixia, Carving the Subtle Radiance of Colors, Taipei, 2014, pl. 93; and another adorned with a single dragon from the Baoyizhai Collection, sold in these rooms, 8th October 2014, lot 3217.