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EARLY CHINESE WHITE WARES
The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection
September 11 - October 3, 2015
1.
A CUP AND PEDESTAL STAND
Sui Dynasty (A.D. 581-618)
Xing or Gongxian kilns
the thinly potted deep bell-shaped cup resting on a small solid foot, the matching stand in the shape of a stemdish with a raised collar to receive the cup in the center of the wide dish-shaped platform on a tall trumpet-shaped foot, all made of cream-white stoneware and covered with a transparent glossy glaze of pale greenish tint, the foot of the cup and underside of the pedestal unglazed.
Height overall 5 3⁄4 inches (14.6 cm)
Cup diameter 3 7⁄8 inches (8.7 cm); height 3 inches (7.6 cm)
Stand diameter 5 3⁄8 inches (13.7 cm); height 2 5⁄8 inches (7.4 cm)
A very similar glazed white stoneware cup and stand are illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Three (II), London, 2006, p. 381, no. 1382.
This special form of stand with central collar to receive the matching cup is very rare, but similar cups and stemdishes without the raised collar to receive the cup are well documented in Sui dynasty white stoneware.
Compare the cups of very similar form excavated at the site of the Xing kilns in Neiqiu county, Hebei province, illustrated in Wenwu, 1987, No. 9, p. 4, fig. 6 and p. 5, fig. 10, attributed to the Sui dynasty. Compare also the cups and pedestal stands of related form but without the raised central collar, excavated from a Sui dynasty tomb at Anyang, Henan province, illustrated in Kaogu, 1992, No. 1, pl. 3-6 and pl. 3-5.
隋 邢窰或鞏縣窰白瓷杯及高足托 通高 14.6 厘米
杯徑 8.7 厘米 高 7.6 厘米
高足托徑 13.7 厘米 高 7.4 厘米
