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26 mai 2020

A red lacquer cup stand, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)

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Lot 3269. A red lacquer cup stand, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279); 6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) diamEstimate $10,000– $12,000Price Realized $37,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015

The thin-walled cup stand is made in the shape of a shallow dish centered by a hollow cup holder with rounded, tapering sides positioned above the integral, hollow pedestal foot, and is covered on the exterior with dark red lacquer and on the interior with black lacquer. The rims have narrow metal mounts, Japanese wood box.

Note: Compare the two red lacquer cup stands of similar shape illustrated in The Colors and Forms of Song and Yuan China: Featuring Lacquerwares, Ceramics, and Metalwares, Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, Tokyo, 2004, nos. 154 and 157, the first with black lacquer on the underside of the dish and on the exterior of the foot, the exterior of the second in all red lacquer. Like the present example, the Nezu cup stands have narrow metal mounts to protect the thin rims.

Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 15 - 16 March 2015, New York, Rockefeller Plaza

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