The pleasing proportions and lovely surface of this sturdy yet gracefully rounded serving piece reflect a perfection of form and refined skills in lathework and lacquering that developed over many years of production and use. A play of color where the black under layer emerges through the smooth red lacquer surface is appreciated aesthetically and prized as a mark of natural wear over time. Such large round trays were used for serving cups of tea at communal meals in temples.
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朱漆高盤 （根来塗）
Title:Round Negoro Tray (Kōban)
Period:Muromachi period (1392–1573)
Date:first half 15th century
Culture:Japan
Medium:Lacquered wood with coatings of red lacquer over black lacquer (Negoro ware)
Dimensions:Diam. 16 3/8 in (41.6 cm)
Classification:Lacquer
Credit Line:Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015
Object Number:2015.500.2.57
[ Klaus F. Naumann , Tokyo, until 1989; sold to Irving]; Florence and Herbert Irving , New York (1989–2015; donated to MMA)
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Watt, James C. Y., and Barbara Brennan Ford. East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991, pp. 184–185, 374, cat. no. 76, fig. 76.
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