A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID LACQUER TRAY AND STAND Ryukyu Islands, Qianli seal mark, 17th/18th century The canted square tray with a central yin yang symbol encircled by the Eight Trigrams within a rounded cavetto and flat rim with geometrical inlaid border and red lacquer edge, the sides of the tall stand with archaic vessels, a scholar and attendant, luduan and a poetic inscription and Qianli mark, the tray base and stand interior painted with the character yi 益. Tray, 14cm (5 1/2in) wide. (2). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 琉球，十七/十八世紀 黑漆嵌螺鈿八卦圖倭角方盤連座 「千里」款 Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2005, no.115. 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2005年，編號115 The poem is a line by the famous Song dynasty stateman and reformer Wang Anshi (1021-1086) and reads: 細數落花因坐久, which may be translated as: 'the small and numerous fallen blossoms whereupon I sit for long', followed by the seal mark of the lacquer craftsman Jiang Qianli. Jiang Qianli was a renowned craftsman specialising in inlaid lacquer. Although he was traditionally thought to have lived during the late Ming period, recent scholarship placed him a little later in the Kangxi period; see G.Tsang and H.Moss, Arts from the Scholar's Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, no.144. Compare with a similar example in the British Museum, no. 1974,0226.70.a, illustrated by Sir Harry Garner, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, pl.197. See also a related tray and stand in Ryukyuan Lacquerware from the Urasoe Art Museum Collection, Urasoe, 1995, p.71, no.44. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com