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Lot Essay
A similar example of this glaze and shape, but without the ring foot, was sold in these Rooms, 3 November 1998, lot 898.
Cf. a persimmon-glazed ding yao cup-stand illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, pl. 354, where the author draws attention to the form and colour of similar lacquer wares excavated from a Song tomb at Heqiao, Yixing county, Jiangsu province, now in the Nanjing Museum.
The mallow shape was inspired from lacquer wares of the period; compare to a red and black dish and a lobed bowl, dated to the Northern Song dynasty, included in the O.C.S. Hong Kong, exhibition, 2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, 1993, and illustrated in the Catalogue, nos. 11 and 12; and a Song dynasty black lacquer dish sold in these Rooms, 30 April 2001, lot 621. It is possible, as the present lot has a ring foot rather than a flat base, that it was inspired by sheet-metal work.
Cf. a persimmon-glazed ding yao cup-stand illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, pl. 354, where the author draws attention to the form and colour of similar lacquer wares excavated from a Song tomb at Heqiao, Yixing county, Jiangsu province, now in the Nanjing Museum.
The mallow shape was inspired from lacquer wares of the period; compare to a red and black dish and a lobed bowl, dated to the Northern Song dynasty, included in the O.C.S. Hong Kong, exhibition, 2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, 1993, and illustrated in the Catalogue, nos. 11 and 12; and a Song dynasty black lacquer dish sold in these Rooms, 30 April 2001, lot 621. It is possible, as the present lot has a ring foot rather than a flat base, that it was inspired by sheet-metal work.