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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
1645
A TIXI LACQUER CUP STAND
YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY (1279-1644)
The hollow, rounded cup holder is deeply carved on the exterior through layers of red and black lacquer
with a band of large ruyi scrolls, repeated on both sides of the dish-like fange and again on the splayed
foot, and the interior lacquered black.
6¡ in.(16.4 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Japan.
Bukchon Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea.
Anthony Carter Ltd., London.
EXHIBITED
Dazaifu, Kyushu National Museum, Kaikan Tokubetsushuppin Seihin Senshu (Opening exhibition, the
selected works), 16 October - 27 November 2005.
LITERATURE
Kyushu National Museum, Kaikan Tokubetsushuppin Seihin Senshu (Opening exhibition, the selected
works), Dazaifu, 2005, p.112, no. 98.
Bukchon Art Museum, East Asian Lacquer, Seoul, 2008, p. 51, no. I-20.
A similar tixi black lacquer cup stand of this form and design, from the Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya,
is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Carved Lacquer, The Tokugawa Art Museum and the Nezu
Institute of Fine Arts, 1984, no. 20. Another was sold at Christie’s Hong, 28 October 2002, lot 583. See
also, a larger (8 º in.) example included in the exhibition catalogue, In a Myriad of Forms: The Ancient
Chinese Lacquers, Shanghai Museum, 2018, no. 52.
元/明初 剔犀盞托

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