A Beautiful Japanese Lacquer Tray-Makie Flowers
July 2014 Auction by Far East Asian Art

This lovely Japanese lacquer tray is covered all over two thirds of the top with multiple flowers and leaves in gold makie lacquer on a nashiji (pear skin) ground. The bottom of the tray is a beautiful red-orange lacquer. It measures 14” diameter and the tray is 1” deep – with the tripod legs it is 4” high. There is, however, a problem. At some time, two of the legs of the tripod were broken off in parts. Only one of the three legs is still intact...