Arts

Appreciation of Yuan and Ming Lacquerwork(3)

Ming Dynasty

A Carved...

Kang cupboard lacquered in black on inside and backside, outer walls and door...
A Carved...

The top is well carved with a five-clawed dragon leaping around a flaming...
A large lacquer...

Large and compressed circular box of tri-color lacquer, crimson, black and...
Oblong Red Box...

The box is square, with four short feet at the four corners of the bottom....

A Five-Color Overlay Bubble-Suffused Colorless Glass Snuff Bottle

Of flattened form with flat lip and recessed, flat foot surrounded by a footrim, the main sides carved through the transparent pink, green, yellow and reddish-pink overlay to the bubble-suffused...
Miniature landscape of the Penglai Fairyland made of malachite inlaid with pearls and gems

On top of the malachite mountain base, queer-shaped rocks are exquisitely carved, flowers and fruits are competing for attention, and the trees are exuberant, giving a view full of vitality.
A Pair of Yellow-Glazed and Black Flower Basins

Robust forms rests on perforated ring feet with deep outwardly angled walls and spreading lips, decorated with dark peony motif over yellow ground across middle in elegant coloration...
A Wucai "Dragon" Bowl

Finely-potted form with high walls flaring slightly out at the lip, outer wall with delicately painted underglaze-blue dragons chasing pearls alternating with downward facing phoenixes on a floral...