REFERENCE: Classics of the Forbidden City: Lacquerware in the Collection of the Palace Museum, Forbidden City Press, 2012, Fig. 32 This lot is an outstanding example of Ming Yongle lacquered wares, the low, rounded sides joined by canted incurved corners and set over four low feet, covered overall in glossy red lacquer, the center decorated with a lakeside scene depicting a scholar in the doorway of an open pavilion awaiting the arrival of another scholar accompanied by his attendant bearing a qin , framed by open rockwork an pine trees.
This lot is an outstanding example of Ming Yongle lacquered wares, the low, rounded sides joined by canted incurved corners and set over four low feet, covered overall in glossy red lacquer, the center decorated with a lakeside scene depicting a scholar in the doorway of an open pavilion awaiting the arrival of another scholar accompanied by his attendant bearing a qin , framed by open rockwork an pine trees.
REFERENCE: Classics of the Forbidden City:
Lacquerware in the Collection of the Palace
Museum, Forbidden City Press, 2012, Fig. 32