明十六/十七世紀 剔犀高足盃

the deep curving sides rising from a splayed foot to a gently everted rim, the exterior deeply carved through the layers of brown-black lacquer with ruyi-shaped cloud scrolls revealing alternating black and vermillion-red layers of lacquer beneath, the interior and base lined with a white metal fitting

The cup is in good condition with the exception of several short vertical hairline age cracks running up to the rim, several short age cracks around the exterior and one 4cm., age crack running horizontally through the lower body, the metal liner and foot are rubbed.
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Compare a closely related stem cup in the British Museum, London, registration number 1974,0226.7; and a smaller example with wider mouth, included in the exhibition Chinese and Associated Lacquer. From the Garner collects ion, British Museum, London, 1973, cat. no. 13.