A cinnabar 'tixi' lacquer cup stand, Yuan dynasty 元 朱面剔犀盞托

Elaborately decorated lacquer cup stands were used to support teabowls in monochrome with much simpler designs. Compare a slightly bigger Yuan-dynasty example in black with a highly similar proportion and design from the collection of the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Shanghai Museum, In a Myriad of Forms: The Ancient Chinese Lacquers, Shanghai, 2018, pl. 52. See also a lobed cinnabar example with similar decoration sold in these rooms, 3rd April 2019, lot 3673.

此器外部包圍雕工精巧的如意紋。 如此精心裝飾的漆器盞托可用於搭配設計簡潔的單色釉茶盌。對比一例元代黑漆盞托，尺寸略大於本拍品，形狀比例及裝飾紋路都極為相似，藏於上海博物館，收錄於上海博物館，《千文萬華：中國歷代漆器藝術》，上海，2018年，編號52。見另一朱面葵口類例2019年4月3日售於香港蘇富比，編號3673。