China, Yuan, early Ming dynasty, 14th century
Carved red lacquer on an ochre-coloured lacquer ground over a wooden core. The interior eight-lobed medallion carved with a lakeside landscape with wild geese: to the left a Taihu rock on a reed-covered peninsula, on which a pair of geese have their nest, to the background, trees and shrubbery; to the foreground, on the banks of the lake, a wild goose with a plant in its beak, further right, bamboo bushes, in the sky, a wild goose in flight. The background composed of finely stylised patterns signifying air and water. The lobed cavetto carved with a composite floral scroll including lotus, plum, gardenia, peony and magnolia flowers on an ochre-coloured lacquer ground;the exterior with a deeply carved xiangcao scroll. The foot also eight-lobed, the base in brown lacquer. Warping to the wooden core; some fissures and some small parts missing to the lacquer; slight retouching to cavetto, rim and foot ring. Ø 28.5 cm; height: 3-4 cm. (BA)

Cf. eight-lobed plate with similar composite floral scroll and background pattern, dating from the Yuan dynasty, in the Healy Collection. J. M. White/Bao Yanli, Masterpieces of Chinese Lacquer from the Mike Healy Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts 2005, cat. no. 15, pp. 52-53.

Provenance: Acquired from A. Förster, Vienna, 19.11.1954

罕见的八角形曲边漆雕盘
中国，元/名早期，十四世纪
盘体略微扭曲，带小的损坏和轻微补彩处，直径28,5厘米
在Healy collection收藏中有类似藏品，录入Honolulu Academy of Arts 2005年出版的J.M.White/ Bao Yanli 所著的Materpieces of Chinese Lacquer from the Mike Healy collection。
出处：维也纳A. Förster 家庭传承， 1954年11月19日