XUANDE INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

Cloisonné enamel cup stands of Xuande mark and period are rare, and only two other examples incised with the current type of double-outlined mark appear to be published. The first, decorated with a nearly identical pattern to the present example is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, published in Metal-Bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, no. 28, illustrated together with another Xuande-marked cup stand, no. 29; the second example is in the Pierre Uldry Collection, included in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York, 1989, no. 23.