HONGWU PERIOD (1368-1398)

Compare to a similar cup stand in the British Museum, illustrated by Jessica Harrison-Hall in Ming Ceramics, p. 486, pl. 16.62, and closely related blue and white and copper-red examples from Jingdezhen, such as a blue and white stand recovered from the Hongwu stratum, Dongmentou, Zhushan, illustrated in Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain excavated at Jingdezhen, Taipei, 1996, pp. 100-1, no. 17, and a copper-red stand also from the Hongwu period in the Palace Museum, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze-Red (I), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Shanghai, 2000, p. 243, pl. 224.