Adam's Fine Asian Art Preview 23 November 2021

50 *A LARGE SQUARE MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID ‘PRUNUS AND CRESCENT MOON’ TRAY CHINA, LATE YUAN TO MING DYNASTY The low, rounded sides joined by canted incurved corners and set over one continuous foot, covered overall in glossy black lac- quer inlaid with mother-of-pearl designs, the central surface with a blossoming prunus tree, its thick trunk issuing lean branches of new growth laden with emergent buds and flowers, the longest branches sweeping upward toward the crescent moon above, the interior sides with scrolling chrysanthemum. Side: 35,3 cm Provenance (according to the seller): Bought in 2003 from the closing sale of Charlotte Horstmann & Gerald Godfrey Ltd., Hong Kong, China. €6,000 - 12,000 NOTES: 1. For a related tray at public auction, please refers to Sotheby’s New York, The United States of America, 2018/03/21, lot 607, sold for USD47.700 BP incl. 2. Compare with a related tray bearing the same motif from the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection preserved in the Metro- politan Museum of Art (cf. accession number 2015.500.1.56). Also compare with a tray with a similar design from the Jean-Pierre Dubosc Collection illustrated in Chinese Lacquer from the Jean-Pierre Dubosc Collection and Others, Eskenazi, 1992, cat. no. 12.