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A TIXI LACQUER CUP STAND

YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

The hollow cup-shaped receptacle is deeply carved on the exterior
through layers of black, cinnabar-red, green and yellow lacquer
with a band of large ruyi scrolls, repeated on both sides of the
dish-like flange, and again on the splayed foot. The interior is
lacquered black.
6 º in. (16 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box

HK$500,000-800,000 US$65,000-100,000

Compare two black tixi lacquer cupstands of this form and with this
design, one from the Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya, included in
the exhibition Carved Lacquer, The Tokugawa Art Museum and the
Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 20;
the other one sold in Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 October 2002, lot 583.
Compare also a Southern Song black tixi lacquer cupstand of this form
but carved with two rows of ruyi pattern on both the exterior of cup-
shaped receptacle and the dish-shaped flange from the Shoden Eigen-
in, Kyoto, included in the exhibition, The Colors and Forms of Song and
Yuan China: Featuring Lacquerwares, Ceramics, and Metalwares, the
Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, Tokyo, 2004, illustrated in the Catalogue,
no. 61.

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