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Covered Tray

The top of this covered tray is decorated with a complex painting of palace buildings in a landscape setting, rendered in various colors and gold on a black lacquer ground. Inside the cover is an inscription reading Jie Ji, the name of a lacquer manufacturing studio.

• Medium: Lacquer and basketry
• Place Made: China
• Dates: 1368-1644
• Dynasty: Ming Dynasty
• Period: Ming Dynasty
• Inscriptions: Inside the cover is an inscription reading Jie ji; the name of a lacquer manufacturing studio.
• Collections: Asian Art
• Museum Location: This item is on view in Asian Galleries, The Arts of China, 2nd Floor
• Accession Number: 83.168.3
• Credit Line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John P. Lyden
• Image: Overall, 83.168.3_detail_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2006
Covered Tray, 1368-1644. Lacquer and basketry Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John P. Lyden, 83.168.3 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 83.168.3_detail_PS1.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: Low, rectangular box (a) with cover (b). Flange around the perimeter of base widens into a low foot at each corner. Convex sides of minute basketry covered with red-brown lacquer framed in black lacquer with fold fret pattern. Bottom black lacquer. Interior red lacquer. Top painted with an elaborate landscape scene of scholars at a lakeside mansion and garden done with litharge and lacquer colors and gold on a black lacquer ground. The top of this covered tray is decorated with a complex painting of palace buildings in a landscape setting, rendered in various colors and gold on a black lacquer ground. Inside the cover is an inscription reading Jie Ji, the name of a lacquer manufacturing studio. (Gallery Chat Label, 2005) Condition: extensive but inconsequential old abrasions of lacquer painting on the top.