April 13, 2022 10:00 EST
Asian Arts
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A mother of pearl-inlaid lacquer "Phoenix and Pine" tray 贝母镶嵌”凤栖梧桐“大漆托盘
The rectangular tray with angled sides, the interior with a shell-inlaid shaped cartouche decorated with a phoenix flying above pine and rockwork, against a diaper ground, floral and foliate borders, underside with inlaid florets; remnants of a Japanese wood box.
L: 14 in.
PROVENANCE:
Property from a private collection, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Sold for $1,260
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
The rectangular tray with angled sides, the interior with a shell-inlaid shaped cartouche decorated with a phoenix flying above pine and rockwork, against a diaper ground, floral and foliate borders, underside with inlaid florets; remnants of a Japanese wood box.
PROVENANCE:
Property from a private collection, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
NOTE:
For a box with similar treatments of rosettes in the border and a diaper ground, see the example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, dated to the late 16th-early 17th century, in Denise Patry Leidy, "Mother-of Pearl, A Tradition in Asian Lacquer", New York, 1996, p. 58, no.13
