Ming Dynasty The deep steep-sided tapering bowl (or possibly counter box) with a rounded shoulder and deeply carved with V-shaped channels through multiple layers of black and cinnabar lacquer with two registers of large pommel scrolls stopping neatly at a plain band at the incurving rim and above a single register of smaller tailed-scrolls and a plain band at the incurving foot. 5in (12.7cm) across, later Japanese silver cover