YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

Compare two black tixi lacquer cupstands of this form and with this design, one from the Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya, included in the exhibition Carved Lacquer, The Tokugawa Art Museum and the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 20; the other one sold in Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 October 2002, lot 583. Compare also a Southern Song black tixi lacquer cupstand of this form but carved with two rows of ruyi pattern on both the exterior of cup-shaped receptacle and the dish-shaped flange from the Shoden Eigen-in, Kyoto, included in the exhibition, The Colors and Forms of Song and Yuan China: Featuring Lacquerwares, Ceramics, and Metalwares, the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, Tokyo, 2004, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 61.