A SET OF TEN LACQUER DISHES MING / QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

each shallow dish covered in red lacquer to the interior with traces of gilt to the rim, painted in gilt with various birds wading in lotus ponds or perched on prunus blossoms, the reverse revealing a body constructed from wickerwork and a base lacquered black, inscribed with the character ji

Urushi no Bi [The Beauty of the Lacquer], Aomori Prefectural Folk Museum, Aomori, 1993, p. 105, cat. no. 182.