J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Porcelain and Silver in the Song Dynasty
March 18 - April 8, 2002
26.
A YINGQING PORCELAIN FLOWER-SHAPED
WINECUP AND STAND
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
the thinly potted cup with rounded flaring sides divided into six petal lobes by notches around the everted rim and with corresponding very faintly incised lines on the exterior, resting on a small splayed pedestal base, the dish-shaped stand with wide flat rim cut with six notches on the upturned edge and raised on a high hollow foot divided into six panels by incised double lines extending down to deep notches at the edge, with a trefoil motif pierced through each panel, and with a stepped platform with raised rim applied in the center of the stand to receive the cup, both covered with a glassy pale blue translucent glaze of well-matched clear tone, the base of the cup and stand unglazed showing the fine porcelain body, with some kiln grit and iron-brown marks from supports used in firing, the ware and firing marks characteristic of the Hutian kilns.
Diameter of cup 4 3⁄8 inches (11.1 cm)
Diameter of stand 5 3⁄4 inches (14.6 cm)
A Yingqing cup and stand of very similar form is in the Baur Collection, illustrated by John Ayers in The Baur Collection, Vol. I, Genève, 1968, no. A120 and on the cover of the dust-jacket for the catalogue. Other similar examples of this same form are illustrated by Regina Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. 1, London 1994, p. 317, no. 593, and in the Illustrated Catalogues of the Tokyo National Museum, Chinese Ceramics, Vol. I, Tokyo, 1988, p. 99, no. 390.
