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A GILT-BRONZE LOBED 'LOTUS SCROLL'
CUP STAND
Yuan Dynasty
The lobed body rising from a slightly spreading
foot incised with a band of lotus to an everted
mouth engraved with a band of foliage,
all heavily gilt except for the interior of the
cavetto and foot rim.
13cm (5 1/8in) diam.
HKD80,000 - 100,000
US$10,000 - 13,000
元 銅鎏金菊瓣形盞托
Compare with a related dish, Liao dynasty,
illustrated in Qidan wangchao: Neimenggu
Liaodai wenwu jinghua (The Dynasty of Khitan:
Selected Cultural Relics of Liao Dynasty
Unearthed in Inner Mongolia), Beijing, 2002,
p.190.

A wine cup was usually served on a cup
stand, jiutai酒臺 during the Song and Yuan
dynasties. By the Ming dynasty it appears
that cup stands were shorter in height; for
a related discussion, see Z.S.Yang, Shehua
zhise: Song Yuan Ming jinyinqi yanjiu (The
Study of Gold and Silver Wares of Song, Yuan
Ming Dynasties), Beijing, 2011, vol.3, pp.6-37.

盞托八出菊花口，折沿，沿圓唇，沿壁鏨刻
卷草紋一周，腹部分兩層，收於外撇短圈
足，圈足壁鏨刻蓮紋一周， 內地起矮墻承
杯，除足圈內裡及內墻裡面，其餘皆鎏金。

此盞托高度介乎臺盞與盤盞之間，宋代之盞
臺較高，越晚則越矮，至明代幾乎不見高盞
台，而清一色多為盞盤矣，揚之水對於此類
器皿有詳細介紹，見《奢華之色：宋元明金
銀器研究》，北京，2011年，卷3，頁6-37。

與本件形制類似者可比較一件內蒙古出土之
遼代銀鎏金纏枝卷草紋盤，見《契丹王朝-內
蒙古代文物精華》，北京，2002年，頁190。

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