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Past Exhibition

Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private Collection

March 28 - April 16, 2005

A YINGQING GLAZED PORCELAIN DRAGON-HANDLED WINECUP
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A YINGQING GLAZED PORCELAIN DRAGON-HANDLED WINECUP

Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1127–1279)

the deep cup raised on a high ring foot and applied with a pair of simply modelled chilong handles, the dragons shown climbing up the sides and biting on the rim, and with their tails coiled around either side, the rounded base with an incised double ring and the sides lightly combed with radiating lines, covered inside and out and over the base with a glassy translucent glaze of bright bluish tone pooling to intense aquamarine color in some areas, the moulded lip rim left unglazed revealing the sugary white porcelain body.

Height 3 inches (7.6 cm)
Width 5 38 inches (13.7 cm)

Compare the Yingqing cups of this design in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and the Barlow Collection at the University of Sussex all illustrated by Wirgin in Sung Ceramic Designs, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 28f–i. The same Yingqing cup from Barlow Collection is illustrated by Pierson in Qingbai Ware: Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, London, 2002, p. 94, no. 41, together with the similar dragon-handled cup in the collection of Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, no. 42.

Another similar example is illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, Vol. I, no. 618. Compare also the example from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Clark, exhibited in 1956 at the Musée Cernuschi, L’Art de la Chine des Song, Paris, 1956, no. 127 and previously shown at the London Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition and illustrated in the catalogue entitled Exhibition of Sung Dynasty Wares, Ting, Ying Ch’ing and Tz’u Chou, London, 1949, no. 81 and again in the O.C.S. exhibition in 1960 and illustrated in the catalogue The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, London, 1960, pl. 72, no. 203.

宋   影青龍柄酒盃  高 7.6 厘米  徑 13.7 厘米

39.
A YINGQING GLAZED PORCELAIN DRAGON-HANDLED WINECUP

Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1127–1279)

Height 3 inches (7.6 cm)
Width 5 38 inches (13.7 cm)

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