A FINELY DECORATED CELADON CUP STAND

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A FINELY DECORATED CELADON CUP STAND
KORYO DYNASTY (12TH CENTURY)

The finely potted cup stand with wide flaring saucer and set on a raised ring foot, decorated with two delicately incised dragons chasing each other around the saucer, bordered by two bands of keyfret patterns beneath a rich bubble-suffused celadon glaze - 1 1/2 x 5 3/4in. (4 x 14.5cm.)

Provenance

Robert Moore, sold in these rooms October 16th, 1986, lot 34

Lot Essay

For similar examples see Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Charles B. Hoyt Collection memorial exhibition (Boston 1952), pl. 597, p. 150; and Gompertz, Korean celadon and other wares of the Koryo period (London 1963), pl. 11a