Lot 7. A lobed cinnabar lacquer cup stand, Song dynasty (960-1279); 16.3 cm, 6 ⅜ in. Estimate: 200,000 - 300,000 HKD. Lot sold 1,260,000 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

of globular form with rounded sides collared with a six-lobed dish resembling a mallow flower, all supported on a hollow flared foot, enveloped in cinnabar lacquer, save for the interior of the foot and the rims, outlining the silhouette of the vessel, Japanese wood box

Property from the Aoyama Studio Collection

Note: Four Southern Song cinnabar lacquer cup stands are 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, 155, 157 and 158; one is modelled with chrysanthemum petals, one is in the form of a lotus, and the remaining two are circular. See also a related black lacquer example of this mallow form in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, published in Hai-wai yi-chen. Chinese Art in Overseas Collections. Lacquerware, Taipei, 1987, pl. 24; and a further example from the collection of Sakamoto Gorō (1923-2016), sold in these rooms, 8th October 2013, lot 149. Compare also a cup stand with a barbed rim, from the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., included in Monika Kopplin, ed., The Monochrome Principle, Munich, 2008, pl. 9. For a Ding counterpart, but with a globular collar and petal-lobed rim, see one sold in our New York rooms, 19th September 2002, lot 73