Tray
Original Language Title明 彩漆嵌金螺鈿長方盤
CultureChinese
DateMing dynasty (1368-1644)
MediumLacquered wood with painted gold and inlaid mother-of-pearl decoration and basketry
DimensionsOverall: 1 1/2 × 14 9/16 × 4 7/8 inches (3.81 × 36.99 × 12.38 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Laurence Sickman
Object numberF88-38/12
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Not on viewCollections
Exhibition HistoryJames C. Y. Watt,Editorial, “Notes on Two 16th Century Lacquers in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of art” Orientations, Special issue for the Chinese art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. 39, no. 8 (November/December 2008):101.
The central panel of this tray is a painted blue and green garden scene where two seated gentlemen converse while a servant safeguards a nearby horse. The scene was commonly used on expensive lacquerwares created in the 1500s to 1600s. In addition to the sumptuous lacquer painting, the underside of the tray is made of basketry panels woven with thin strips of bamboo and inlaid with gold floral patterns throughout.
Laurence Sickman, until 1988.
Bequeathed by Laurence Sickman to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1988.
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Owen Jones
1851
2011.62.A,B
34-310/9
