An UNUSUAL RYUKYUAN MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND BROWN AND BLACK LACQUER SQUARE FOOTED TRAY 18th CenturyPROPERTY FROM THE MARY AND CHENEY COWLES COLLECTIONAn UNUSUAL RYUKYUAN MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND BROWN AND BLACK LACQUER SQUARE FOOTED TRAY18th CenturyThe square tray with canted corners and up-curving border rising from a flat central square interior decorated in the Ming style with a plain brown lacquer center and mother-of-pearl inlaid ogival surround with a diaper cell pattern below a densely patterned border of multiple triangular panels with differing raised textile-like designs divided by half chrysanthemum heads, the reverse border with dense composite floral scrolls in mother-of-pearl on a thin painted lacquer ground above a lobed apron-like foot. 7 1/2in x 1 1/2in (19.5cm x 3.8cm), Japanese wood box 十八世紀 琉球醬漆黑漆螺鈿委角帶足方盤ProvenanceDoyle New York, 20 March 2000, lot 26來源：紐約Doyle拍賣行，2000年3月20日，拍品編號26