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8001 Continued 盞托菱花口，折沿，淺弧腹，托心凸起一槽，槽內飾十字花紋，外環六組
纏枝菊紋，內壁飾八朵折枝蓮紋，折沿飾卷草紋，外壁飾仰蓮瓣紋。足內
For similar examples with the ruyi medallion in the centre, see the stand 無釉。
in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain
with Underglazed Red (I), Hong Kong, 2000, p. 244, no. 225; another in 紋飾相若的洪武釉裏紅盞托雖見諸於全球公私珍藏，但如此發色鮮紅者則
the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Wang Qingzheng (ed.), Underglaze 極少。
Blue and Red, Hong Kong, 1987, no. 39; and another sold at Christies
London, 28 June 1964, and illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie’s Pictorial 如此器內飾十字花紋的盞托有數例，一藏北京故宮博物院，見故宮博物院
History of Chinese Ceramics, Oxford, 1984, p. 148, no. 1. There are also 藏文物珍品大系《青花釉裡紅（上）》，香港，2000 年，頁 244，圖版 225 號；
stands each with an open lotus flower in the centre medallion, such as the 一藏上海博物館，見汪慶正編《青花釉裏紅》，香港，1987 年，圖版 39 號；
one in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated in 一載於 A. du Boulay 著《Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics》，
Oriental Ceramics, Kondasha Series, Tokyo, 1982, vol. 8, no. 51; for an 牛津，1984 年，編號 148。亦有中心飾折枝蓮紋的例子，如斯德哥爾摩東
example with a peony in the centre, see the example from the Meiyintang 亞博物館所藏一例，見《Oriental Ceramics》，1982 年，第 8 冊，圖版 51 號；
Collection, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7 April 2011, lot 44. 及中心飾折枝牡丹紋的例子，如玫茵堂舊藏一例，於 2011 年 4 月 7 日香
港蘇富比拍賣，拍品 44 號。
This type of petal-moulded cup stand originated in the late Yuan dynasty,
and was modelled after Middle Eastern metal work. For a Yuan cup 此類菱口盞托源於元末，器型仿自中東金屬器。可比較玫茵堂所藏一件元
stand of this type in blue and white, see an example in the Meiyintang 代的青花例子，載於康蕊君著《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，第 4 冊（上），倫敦，
Collection, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, 2010 年，頁 31，圖版 1616 號。
vol. 4 (I), London, 2010, p. 31, no. 1616.

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