A CINNABAR LACQUER AND GILT BAMBOO TRAY

A CINNABAR LACQUER AND GILT BAMBOO TRAY, POSSIBLY RYUKYU ISLANDS

PROBABLY EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Of circular shape, with remnants of gilt and litharge decoration to the well depicting Chinese figures in a landscape, the rim embellished with bamboo strips woven in loops, together with a fitted silk box, 33cm. (2)

Provenance: from an English private collection, London.

See the Sen-oku Hakuko Kan Museum, Kyoto, for a related rectangular tray with similar woven bamboo rim and gold lacquer decoration. Also, see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, access. no. 2015.500.2.5 for a Ryukyu footed tray also decorated with figures in a landscape.