A Chinese cinnabar lacquer rectangular tray, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), very well carved with a genre scene of figures and attendants in a fenced garden pavilion, the slightly everted rim with a diaper pattern, 39.3 cm long, 28 cm wide. Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, Dr Ip Yee Collection, November 1984, Lot 119. Bluett, London (label attached)