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A RARE DING-TYPE BROWN-GLAZED CUPSTAND Cupstands of this type with some variations appear to have been
Song Dynasty produced during the Song dynasty in various media, such as ceramic,
The thinly-potted cup with deep rounded sides resting on a thin lacquer and even silver. The present example appears to have
shallow dish, and supported on a tall spreading foot, covered inside been directly inspired by prototypes glazed in a rich caramel-brown
and out in a rich chocolate-brown glaze thinning on the underside glaze and fired at the Northern Ding kilns in Hebei Province during
and rim areas to dark-green and black, Japanese wood box. the Northern Song dynasty. See a similar Dingyao brown-glazed
11.5cm (4 1/2in) diam. (2). cupstand, Northern Song dynasty, illustrated by R.D.Mowry, Hare’s
Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers. Chinese Brown- and Black-
£20,000 - 30,000 Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996,
CNY180,000 - 260,000 pp.103, no.12; another Dingyao example, Song dynasty, is illustrated
by J.Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, 1980, pl.83. Finally, a Dingyao brown-glazed cupstand,
宋 定窯系柿釉盞 Northern Song dynasty, displaying similar dark blue splashes as the
present lot is illustrated by B.Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the
Provenance: a European private collection Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p.134, no.420.
Christie’s New York, 18 March 2016, lot 1525

來源：歐洲私人收藏
紐約佳士得，2016年3月18日，拍品編號1525

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