19 cm. （7 1/2 in.） high

The deftly carved decorations such as the deeply-incised leaves and use of precise and committed knife techniques is in line with the lacquer work tradition of the Yuan to early Ming dynasties. The motif of barbed border is not only repeated in lacquerwares, but also consistently seen in Yuan and early Ming dynasty metal works and porcelain examples.

Compare an example of a barbed black lacquer dish （accession no. 2015.500.1.69） dated to the Yuan dynasty, formerly in the collection of Klaus F. Naumann, Tokyo, then acquired by Florence and Herbert Irving, New York, in 1988, finally bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 2015. See also another barbed cinnabar lacquer dish dated to the Yongle period in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2006, p.49, no.32.

Provenance：
A Japanese Private Collection
Acquired by the current owner in the early 2000s

Price estimate:
HKD: 750, 000 - 950, 000
USD: 96, 200 - 121, 800

Auction Result:
HKD: --