HONGWU PERIOD (1368-1398)

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A Blue and White Petal-Molded Cup Stand
Hongwu period (1368-1398)
The center painted with a stylized flowerhead encircled by a raised collar to support the cup and an outer field of continuous peony scroll, below eight detached flower sprigs in the petal-molded well and a narrow band of classic scroll on the everted rim with correspondingly barbed outer edge which is painted on the exterior with a band of key pattern above petal lappets painted on the petal-molded sides, the base burnt orange in the firing
7¾in. (19.7cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

This type of petal-molded cup stand in both underglaze blue and underglaze red versions originated in the late Yuan dynasty and continued to be produced by the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen under the patronage of the first Ming Emperor, Hongwu. An underglaze-red example in the Shanghai Museum has a similar central motif, but like many of the other published cup stands is encircled by chrysanthemum meander rather than the peony meander on the present dish. See Wang Qingzheng, Underglaze Blue and Red, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 53, no. 39.

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