Covered Tray
Asian Art
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
DATES
1368–1644
DYNASTY
Ming Dynasty
PERIOD
Ming Dynasty
DIMENSIONS
4 1/2 x 12 3/4 x 21 in. (11.4 x 32.4 x 53.3 cm)
(show scale)
INSCRIPTIONS
Inside the cover is an inscription reading Jie ji; the name of a lacquer manufacturing studio.
ACCESSION NUMBER
83.168.3
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John P. Lyden
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.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Covered Tray, 1368–1644. Lacquer and basketry, 4 1/2 x 12 3/4 x 21 in. (11.4 x 32.4 x 53.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John P. Lyden, 83.168.3. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 83.168.3_PS11.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 83.168.3_PS11.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2015
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