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Lot Essay
A number of Hongwu cup stands of this design have been preserved in important museum and private collections, though few match the intensity of the copper red tone found on the present cup stand.
Cup stands of this type are known with a variety of flower scrolls as decorative motif; for example see one with chrysanthemum scrolls encircling the central ruyi medallion in the Shanghai Museum collection, illustrated in Mingdai guanyao ciqi, Shanghai, 2007, p.8, no.1-2; one with pomegranate flower scroll, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 October 2013, lot 3107.
Cup stands of this type are known with a variety of flower scrolls as decorative motif; for example see one with chrysanthemum scrolls encircling the central ruyi medallion in the Shanghai Museum collection, illustrated in Mingdai guanyao ciqi, Shanghai, 2007, p.8, no.1-2; one with pomegranate flower scroll, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 October 2013, lot 3107.