Foliated Dish (Pan) with Sword-Pommel Pattern

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Foliated Dish (Pan) with Sword-Pommel Pattern

China, Chinese, Early Ming dynasty, about 1368-1450
Furnishings; Serviceware
Carved red lacquer (tixi) on wood core
Height: 1 3/8 in. (3.49 cm); Diameter: 12 3/8 in. (31.43 cm)
Gift of Robert and Gwenna Blackmore (M.87.203)
Chinese Art
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Kuwayama, George.  Chinese Ceramics:  The Heeramaneck Collection.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973.
  • Li, T. June and John W. Hirx, "A Carved Lacquer Ewer:  Adaptations and Innovations in the Sixteenth Century." Orientations vol. 31, No. 6 (June 2000), pp. 79-89.