A Negoro lacquer tray


Momoyama (1573-1615) or Edo (1615-1868) period, 17th/18th centuryA circular turned-wood tray, the top lacquered red, the black-lacquer undercoat faintly showing through in some places, the rim and reverse lacquered black, the area within the footring inlaid in shell with five floral motifs; with a wooden storage box. 55cm (21 5/8in) diameter. (2).
|For similar Negoro trays, see Kawada Sadamu, Negoro (Negoro Lacquer), Kyoto, Shikosha, 1985, no.99 and Miho Museum, Shu-urushi 'Negoro' chusei ni saita hana (Negoro: Efflorescence of Medieval Japanese Lacquerware), exhibition catalogue, 1 September-15 December 2013, cat. nos.45 and 46.