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A Small Hongmu (hardwood) Scholar's Tray, 19th C. browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives: Regional Art: Pre 1900: item # 997521
Ruyi Studio San Francisco By Appointment San Francisco, CA 94131 415.990.3524 Guest Book Sold. Chia Yi City, Taiwan |
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| Ching Dynasty. A small desktop tray in the scholar’s taste of classic form, undecorated, with subtle attention to detail in its rounded corners and concave margins and fashioned from a single piece of hongmu. Hong-mu (lit. ‘red wood,’ but a hardwood unrelated to the California softwood called “redwood,” and also referred to as ‘black wood’ or ‘rose wood’), while less costly than zitan, was highly prized, nevertheless, and many items of hong-mu are to be found in the imperial collection. Of a fairly uniform brownish color with red undertones in natural light, the tray is in excellent condition without chips or losses with only a short hairline fissure typical of aged hongmu and an ink stain visible in the flash photographs as shown. Dimensions & Weight: .4cm (height to lip) x19.4cm x 11.5cm (3/8” x 7-5/8” x 4-1/2”) and weighing 108 grams (3.8 ounces). | ||
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