A RARE EARLY MING COPPER-RED DECORATED BRACKET-LOBED CUP STAND

细节

A RARE EARLY MING COPPER-RED DECORATED BRACKET-LOBED CUP STAND
HONGWU PERIOD (1368-1398)

The centre is painted with a quatrefoil ruyi medallion surrounded by a raised collar to support the cup and by a continuous chrysanthemum scroll bearing six blossoms, the petal-moulded cavetto decorated with lotus and flowers below a classic scroll band on the everted bracket-lobed rim, the exterior with petal lappets, the copper-red of a deep and even raspberry-red tone; and a copper-red decorated cup, a replacement made by Kawase Junichi (minor rim restoration)
7 3/4 in. (19.6 cm.) diam. (2)

来源

Shogakukan, 1976.
Manno Art Museum, no. 427.

出版

Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 14, Shogakukan, 1976, p. 161, no. 139.
Toji Taikei, Gen no Sometsuke, vol. 41, Yoshiaki Yabe, Heibonsha, 1974, nos. 74 and 75.
Selected Masterpieces of the Manno Collection, Japan, 1988, pl. 105.

拍品专文

This type of petal-moulded cup stand in both underglaze-red and blue forms 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.

For similar examples with the ruyi medallion in the centre, cf. the one illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, 1984, p. 148; one in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, Wang Qingzheng (ed.), Hong Long, 1987, pl. 39; the stand included in Chinese Art from the Reach Family Collection, Mssrs Eskenazi, London, 8-22 December 1989, pl. 31; and another illustrated in China's Jingdezhen Porcelain Through the Ages, Beijing, 1998, pp. 37-8. There are also examples with a blossoming flowerhead in the centre, such as the one in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kondasha Series, Tokyo, 1982, vol. 8, pl. 51.

The replacement cup is produced by the contemporary Japanese potter, Kawase Chikushan II (1923-).