A MAGNIFICENT EARLY MING LARGE CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER SQUARE TRAY
A MAGNIFICENT EARLY MING LARGE CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER SQUARE TRAY HONGWU PERIOD (1368-1398) Deeply carved through the thick red layers to the centre with a pictorial landscape depicting two equestrian scholar officials arriving at a country retreat being greeted by attendants variously offering them food, preparing tea, and carrying qin , they approach an elaborate pavilion where two scholars are seated drinking tea, all set within a fenced garden framed by pine, willow and wutong , set on the shore of a lake with islands in the distance and two cranes in flight among swirling clouds, the everted sides carved to the buff ground on the interior and exterior with peony, chrysanthemum, camellia and pomegranate, the foot ring with a key-fret band, the base applied with a brownish-black lacquer incised at the centre with an apocryphal Xuande reign mark written in a horizontal line 15 3/4 in. (40 cm.) wide, box
A MAGNIFICENT EARLY MING LARGE CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER SQUARE TRAY
A MAGNIFICENT EARLY MING LARGE CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER SQUARE TRAY HONGWU PERIOD (1368-1398) Deeply carved through the thick red layers to the centre with a pictorial landscape depicting two equestrian scholar officials arriving at a country retreat being greeted by attendants variously offering them food, preparing tea, and carrying qin , they approach an elaborate pavilion where two scholars are seated drinking tea, all set within a fenced garden framed by pine, willow and wutong , set on the shore of a lake with islands in the distance and two cranes in flight among swirling clouds, the everted sides carved to the buff ground on the interior and exterior with peony, chrysanthemum, camellia and pomegranate, the foot ring with a key-fret band, the base applied with a brownish-black lacquer incised at the centre with an apocryphal Xuande reign mark written in a horizontal line 15 3/4 in. (40 cm.) wide, box
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