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About the Artwork

Cup Stand

between 1127 and 1279

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Chinese

Chinese

Wood with brown-black lacquer

Overall: 3 3/4 × 6 1/4 inches (9.5 × 15.9 cm)

Lacquer

Asian Art

Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund

79.150

This work is in the public domain.

Markings

Inscribed with red lacquer, high stem: [character]

Provenance

1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

High Tea: Glorious Manifestations East and West. Exh. cat., Norton Museum of Art. West Palm Beach, FL, 2014, p. 132.

Pitelka, Morgan. “Warriors, Tea, and Art in Premodern Japan.” Bulletin of the DIA 88, no. 1/4 (2014): pp. 22-23, 30-31 (fig. 6).

You, Yao-Fen. “From Novelty to Necessity: The Europeanization of Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate.” In Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World, ed. Yao-Fen You, Mimi Hellman, and Hope Saska. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2016, p. 42; 54 (ill.); 127, cat. 53.

Kwok, Zoe S. The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century. Exh. cat., Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, 2019, p. 168-169 (cat. 39) (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Chinese, Cup Stand, between 1127 and 1279, wood with brown-black lacquer. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund, 79.150.

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