J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private Collection
March 28 - April 16, 2005
21.
A BLACK-GLAZED STONEWARE CUPSTAND
Northern Song Dynasty, A.D. 11th – early 12th Century
the deep cup-shaped central support with steeply rounded sides curving in to a wide mouth, joined to a plain saucer with sides flaring up to a lipless rim and raised on a high hollow foot, covered inside and out with a lustrous black glaze evenly applied and continuing inside the foot and over the base, the slightly splayed edge of the foot left unglazed revealing the fine-grained stoneware body of pale buff color.
Height 2 1⁄2 inches (6.3 cm)
The very glossy black glaze and the distinctive form of this piece indicate that it was made to follow a Song lacquer prototype. Compare, for example, the lacquer cupstand of very similar form which was excavated from a Song tomb at Heqiaozhen, Yixing county, Jiangsu province, now in the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in the Chinese Museum Series by Wenwu Publishing, in the volume on the Nanjing Museum entitled Nanjing Bowuyuan, Beijing, 1984, no. 116.
北宋 黑釉盞托 高 6.3 厘米 徑 13 厘米
