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PROPERTY FROM THE MEE-DIN AND ROBERT W.
MOORE COLLECTION OF CHINESE LACQUER
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AN EARLY GILT AND RED LACQUER CUP STAND
Song/Jin Dynasty
With a flat everted foliate edge divided into nine lobes edged
in gilt, and mirrored in the cavetto, a simple cup support at the
center, the spreading foot echoing the lobed design.
6in (15.2cm) across

$3,000 - 5,000

宋/金 漆鎏金花瓣形盞托

For a similar dish, see Eskanazi, Chinese Lacquer from the
Jean-Pierre Dubosc Collection and others, London, 1992,
pp.34-35, no. 8. Compare also with a black-lacquered tray of
similar foliate shape dated to the Song-Yuan dynasty, included
in the Exhibition of Eastern Art celebrating the opening of
the Gallery of Eastern Antiquities, Tokyo National Museum,
1968, no. 479. For a Song dynasty example with a raised cup
support at the center, see The Colors and Forms of Song and
Yuan China featuring Laquerwares, Ceramics and Metalwares,
Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, Tokyo, 2004, no. 155 from the
Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Japan.

Another dated to the Yuan dynasty in plain black lacquer is
illustrated by Lee King Tsi and Hu Shih Chang, Drache Und
Phoenix, Lackarbeiten aus China, The Lee Family Collection,
Tokyo (Dragon And Phoenix, Chinese Lacquer Ware), The
Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, 1990, pp.42-43, no. 7.

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