A CINNABAR LACQUER TRAY MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

the shallow square tray deeply carved in the centre with border enclosing a landscape scene depicting Shoulao and an acolyte riding a water buffalo along a mountain pathway, set amid rockwork and sparse shrubs with a pavilion shrouded by clouds rising in the horizon under the moonlight, enclosed on the cavetto with leafy sprays of prunus, peony, and camelia, the reverse similarly decorated, the base lacquered black

A Private Japanese Collection.