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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

A NEGORO RAISED CIRCULAR TRAY, MUROMACHI PERIOD, 15TH CENTURY

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November 3, 04:10 PM GMT

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20,000 - 30,000 GBP

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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

A NEGORO RAISED CIRCULAR TRAY

MUROMACHI PERIOD, 15TH CENTURY


of turned and assembled wood with a flat base and curved sides, resting on a tall foot, the red lacquer worn away in places revealing the black lacquer beneath, the base lacquered black

10.5 x 44.5 cm., 4 1/8 x 17 1/2 in.

The footed bowls similar to the above were used in the Negoro Temple for the serving of food. 

Similar examples are illustrated in Kawada Sadamu, Negoro (Kyoto, 1985), pls. 101 and 102. A further example from the Irving Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is illustrated in James Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer; the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection (New York, 1991) pl. 76.