A CHINESE YUNNAN-TYPE CINNABAR LACQUER STEM CUP

£6,000 - £8,000

A CHINESE YUNNAN-TYPE CINNABAR LACQUER STEM CUP
LATE MING DYNASTY

Carved with four magpies among flowering stems of prunus and pomegranate against a diaper ground, with a key fret band to the flared rim, the slender stem with a conforming floral decoration, the interior with a white metal lining, 10.3cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, Sussex.

Cf. The Creation of Natural Immensity and Grandeur: The Yang Ming Shan Fang Collection of Lacquer from Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, pp.108-109, no.31, for a similar lacquer stem cup dated to the late Ming dynasty. The deep colouring of the stem bowl offered here would suggest it may be an example of Yunnan lacquer, of the type illustrated in J Watt and B Ford, East Asian Lacquer - The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, p.91, pl.31. A similar stem cup also presented as Yunnan lacquer was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30th May 2012, lot 4426.

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來源：英國薩塞克斯郡私人收藏。