Foliate lacquer dish with seven bracket lobes on the cavetto

Dish with flattened foliate rim: cavetto fluted to match inside and out; deep chocolate brown lacquer with some lighter areas and some crackle.

Dish with seven bracket lobes on the cavetto, the everted rim with a slightly raised edge and the recessed central well, or medalllion, also of foliate shape corresponding to the bracket lobing.

Historical period(s)
Southern Song or early Yuan dynasty, 12th-13th century
Medium
Lacquer over wood
Dimensions
H x W: 3.5 x 22 cm (1 3/8 x 8 11/16 in)
Geography
China
Credit Line
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1968.67
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Lacquer, Vessel
Type

Dish

Keywords
China, Southern Song dynasty (1127 - 1279), Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368)
Provenance
Provenance research underway.
Description

Dish with flattened foliate rim: cavetto fluted to match inside and out; deep chocolate brown lacquer with some lighter areas and some crackle.

Dish with seven bracket lobes on the cavetto, the everted rim with a slightly raised edge and the recessed central well, or medalllion, also of foliate shape corresponding to the bracket lobing.

Published References
  • Sekai bijutsu zenshu [A Complete Collection of World Art]. 40 vols., Tokyo, 1960-1966. vol. 16: pl. 88.
  • Mrs. Hin-cheung Lovell. Sung and Yuan Monochrome Lacquers in the Freer Gallery. vol. 9 Washington and Ann Arbor. pl. 13.
  • Dr. John Alexander Pope, Thomas Lawton, Harold P. Stern. The Freer Gallery of Art. 2 vols., Washington and Tokyo, 1971-1972. cat. 114, vol. 1: p. 177.
  • Okada-Jo. Undecorated Lacquer ware of the Sung Dynasty. no. 174 Tokyo, September 1965. pp. 2-7.
  • Masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese Art: Freer Gallery of Art handbook. Washington, 1976. p. 59.
Collection Area(s)
Chinese Art
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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