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Lot Essay
A similar white cup stand, with additional raised lines running from the edge of the rim towards the center between each foliation, was excavated from a Five Dynasties tomb in Shezhuang, Anyang in 1957, and is published in Ceramic Finds from Henan, University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 1997, p. 53, no. 23, where the authors suggest that the foliated rim was intended to imitate a lotus blossom. Another cup stand of the same form as the excavated example is illustrated by B. Gyllensvärd in Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 112, no. 337, where the author attributes it to the Xing kilns and gives a Tang dynasty date. In the Hellner collection at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, there is a cup stand of this type, with the additional raised lines, which is shown with its matching cup in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, no. 59.
A white cup stand of the same form as the Falk example, with only foliations and no raised lines, is illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 11, Sui Tang, M. Sato and G. Hasebe (eds.), Tokyo, 1976, p. 167, no. 165, where it is dated to the 10th century. In the same volume, the authors illustrate, for comparison, a Tang dynasty silver-gilt cup stand with the same folded-in foliations at the rim, excavated outside the Heping gate at Xi'an, p. 181, fig. 5.
A white cup stand of the same form as the Falk example, with only foliations and no raised lines, is illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 11, Sui Tang, M. Sato and G. Hasebe (eds.), Tokyo, 1976, p. 167, no. 165, where it is dated to the 10th century. In the same volume, the authors illustrate, for comparison, a Tang dynasty silver-gilt cup stand with the same folded-in foliations at the rim, excavated outside the Heping gate at Xi'an, p. 181, fig. 5.