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A RARE DINGYAO PERSIMMON-GLAZED 宋 定窰醬釉盞托
CUPSTAND
SONG DYNASTY 來源：
家適公司，香港，1990年
skilfully fashioned after the lacquer prototype with a small cup-
shaped receptacle with an incurved rim resting on a circular
‘dish’ and hollow gently splayed foot, covered overall save for
the footring with a copper-russet glaze thinning to the edges of
the ‘cup’ and ‘dish’, the unglazed footring revealing the white
body
12 cm, 4¾ in.

PROVENANCE
Galaxie Company, Hong Kong, 1990.

HK$ 300,000-500,000
US$ 38,700-64,500

It is rare to find Dingyao cupstands of this persimmon glaze.
Cupstands of this type were used as utensils for preparing
and drinking tea as early as the Tang dynasty. It served the
practical purpose of an elaborate saucer that held a teabowl
while drinking hot tea. This particular form is said to have
originated from lacquer and metal cupstands of the Northern
Song period. See a lacquer stand excavated from a Song tomb
at Heqiao, Yixing county, Jiangsu province, now in the Nanjing
Museum, published in Chinese Lacquer from the Jean-Pierre
Collection and Others, Eskenazi, London, 1992, p. 10, fig. 3.

For examples of persimmon-glazed Dingyao cupstands of
similar form see one with a cup, found in Korea, in the Victoria
and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in Rose Kerr, Song
Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004, pl. 40; another included in
The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum.
Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 86; and
a third example in the Saint Louis Art Museum, included in the
exhibition Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers,
Harvard University of Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., 1995,
cat. no. 13. Compare also a cupstand, from the Arthur M.
Sackler and Ruth Dreyfus Collections, sold at Christie’s New
York, 1st December 1994, lot 155; and another sold in these
rooms, 2nd May 2000, lot 598.

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