Four Southern Song cinnabar lacquer cup stands are illustrated in The Colors and Forms of Song and Yuan China: Featuring Lacquerwares, Ceramics, and Metalwares, Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, Tokyo, 2004, nos 154, 155, 157 and 158; one is modelled with chrysanthemum petals, one is in the form of a lotus, and the remaining two are circular. See also a related black lacquer example of this mallow form in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, published in Hai-wai yi-chen. Chinese Art in Overseas Collections. Lacquerware, Taipei, 1987, pl. 24; and a further example from the collection of Sakamoto Gorō (1923-2016), sold in these rooms, 8th October 2013, lot 149. Compare also a cup stand with a barbed rim, from the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., included in Monika Kopplin, ed., The Monochrome Principle, Munich, 2008, pl. 9. For a Ding counterpart, but with a globular collar and petal-lobed rim, see one sold in🦩 our New York rooms, 19th September 2002, lot 73.