Lot 2805. Property from the Kwong Yee Che Tong Collection. A carved and moulded Longquan celadon barbed-rim cup stand, Hongwu period (1368-1398); 18.7 cm diam. Price realised HKD 352,800 (Estimate HKD 300,000 – HKD 500,000) © Christie's Images Ltd 2024

Provenance: Sold at Sotheby’s London, 14 December 1976, lot 84
Anthony Carter, London, 1998
Collection of Roger Belanich
Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 31 May 2017, lot 3003.

Exhibited: On loan to the Seattle Art Museum, 2009-2017.

Note: Compare to a similar cup stand in the British Museum, illustrated by Jessica Harrison-Hall in Ming Ceramics, p. 486, pl. 16.62, and closely related blue and white and copper-red examples from Jingdezhen, such as a blue and white stand recovered from the Hongwu stratum, Dongmentou, Zhushan, illustrated in Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain excavated at Jingdezhen, Taipei, 1996, pp. 100-1, no. 17, and a copper-red stand also from the Hongwu period in the Palace Museum, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze-Red (I), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Shanghai, 2000, p. 243, pl. 224.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 30 May 2024