YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY

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A TIXI LACQUER CUP STAND
YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY
The hollow, rounded cup holder is deeply carved on the exterior through layers of red and black lacquer with a band of large ruyi scrolls, repeated on both sides of the dish-like flange and again on the splayed foot, and the interior lacquered black.
6 3/8 in.(16.4 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance

Private Collection, Japan.
Bukchon Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea.
Anthony Carter Ltd., London.

Literature

Kyushu National Museum, Kaikan Tokubetsushuppin Seihin Senshu (Opening exhibition, the selected works), Dazaifu, 2005, p.112, no. 98.
Bukchon Art Museum, East Asian Lacquer, Seoul, 2008, p. 51, no. I-20.

Exhibited

Dazaifu, Kyushu National Museum, Kaikan Tokubetsushuppin Seihin Senshu (Opening exhibition, the selected works), 16 October - 27 November 2005.

Lot Essay

A similar tixi black lacquer cup stand of this form and design, from the Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Carved Lacquer, The Tokugawa Art Museum and the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, 1984, no. 20. Another was sold at Christie's Hong, 28 October 2002, lot 583. See also, a larger (8 1/4 in.) example included in the exhibition catalogue, In a Myriad of Forms: The Ancient Chinese Lacquers, Shanghai Museum, 2018, no. 52.

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