HONGWU PERIOD (1368-1398)

Details

A LONGQUAN CELADON CARVED BARBED CUP STAND
HONGWU PERIOD (1368-1398)
Heavily potted, the interior carved in the center with a flower sprig surrounded by a raised ring with outer lappet border encircled by a band of composite foliate scroll, below a barbed and lobed well conforming to the shape of the petal-barbed rim carved with classic scroll, covered overall with a glaze of sea-green tone except for an unglazed circle on the slightly convex base that burned orange in the firing
7 3/8 in. (18.6 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Purchased in Kyoto, 1959.
John Yeon Collection, Portland, Oregon.

Lot Essay

Compare the similar cup stand illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 486, no. 16:62. The shape and decoration on this cup stand is based on blue and white and underglaze red examples from Jingdezhen which were also made during the Hongwu period. For a blue and white example see the cup stand excavated at Dongmentou, Zhushan, Jingdezhen, in 1994, illustrated in Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1996, pp. 100-1, no. 17, where a cup is also shown.

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