MUROMACHI PERIOD (15TH/16TH CENTURY)

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A NEGORO TEABOWL-STAND
MUROMACHI PERIOD (15TH/16TH CENTURY)
OF TURNED, CARVED AND ASSEMBLED WOOD IN THE STANDARD FORM, WITH A CUP-SHAPED SUPPORT FOR A TEABOWL AND AN INTEGRAL BROAD SIX-LOBED SAUCER ABOVE A SLIGHTLY SPLAYED TALL FOOT, WITH NO BASE, THE RED LACQUER SLIGHTLY WORN AWAY REVEALING THE BLACK LACQUER BENEATH, ESPECIALLY BETWEEN THE LOBES OF THE SAUCER, AGE CRACKS, OLD WEAR AND SLIGHT CHIP, BOXLID WITH INSCRIPTION NIGATSUDO EI JU, NEGORO DAI, ..... KAO BY SUMIKI FUSAI
8.3CM. HIGH

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Lot Essay

THE CLASSIC SHAPE FOR A CUPSTAND PROBABLY DERIVES FROM A CHINESE METAL PROTOTYPE, THOUGH ITS MOST FAMOUS MANIFESTATION IS AS A LACQUERED CUP-STAND FOR TEABOWLS. WHEN THESE WERE FIRST USED WIDELY IN JAPAN, THE MOST PRIZED OF THE CHINESE WARES WERE THE TYPES GENERICALLY CALLED TENMOKU, HENCE THE JAPANESE NAME FOR THIS SHAPE TENMOKU-DAI.

A SIMILAR EXAMPLE SOLD IN THESE ROOMS, 19 JUNE 2002, LOT 11.

FOR A SLIGHTLY LESS TALL EXAMPLE IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM NEW YORK SEE JAMES WATT AND BARBARA BRENNAN FORD, EAST ASIAN LACQUER; THE FLORENCE AND HERBERT IRVING COLLECTION (NEW YORK, 1991), PL. 74.

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