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the curved sides rising from a recessed base to an eight-lobed foliate rim, decorated with mother-of-pearl to the interior with a central medallion enclosing a scholar seated at a sampan boat admiring a riverside scenery with willow and birds, an attendant standing near the rear of the boat paddling along the lotus pond, the well encircled by an undulating composite floral scroll, all reserved on a black ground, the base lacquered black and with a red lacquer seal, Japanese wood box

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This tray is in good condition, but does have a fine network of old cracks to the black lacquer ground and there is some minor areas of loss to the laquer above the tree and at the end of the stick of the pilot of the sampan. The back of the dish has been re-lacquered.
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