琉球王國十七世紀 黑漆密陀繪嵌螺鈿「柿樹圖」盤

with shallow rounded sides supported on three short feet modelled in the form of walnuts, painted in the mitsudae technique on the recessed interior with a kaki tree behind brushwood fences and multi-coloured stripes of clouds, contained within a star-shaped panel inlaid in mother-of-pearl and picked out with trefoils, all reserved on a 'cash' diaper ground and surrounded with black and red enamelled foliate scrolls, the underside lacquered in black and set with three feet modelled in the form of walnuts, the base numbered in red paint with a single character yi

there is some overall fading and expected tarnishing to the painting, commensurate with age, together with small occasional flakes or losses of mother of pearl on the interior surface (showing on the catalogue illustration), but overall the decoration and inlays have been well preserved.
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