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EARLY CHINESE WHITE WARES
The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection
September 11 - October 3, 2015
3.
TWO LARGE CUPS
Sui Dynasty (A.D. 581-618)
Xing or Gongxian kilns
each of well-potted deep bell shape resting on a small foot with slightly splayed sides, covered inside and out with a glossy transparent glaze of pale greenish tint applied over chalk-white slip, with three spur marks on the center of the interior, the glaze gathering in a line low on the exterior, leaving the rounded base and solid foot unglazed.
Diameter 4 3⁄4 and 4 7⁄8 inches (12.2 and 12.5 cm)
Height 3 1⁄2 and 3 3⁄4 inches (9 and 9.3 cm)
This type of cup is rarely seen in this large size. A pair of very similar glazed white porcelaneous cups of slightly smaller size from the collection of Charles B. Hoyt is illustrated by Fontein and Wu, The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 10: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Tokyo, 1978, no. 52.
Compare also the single large glazed white porcelaneous cups of very similar form and slightly smaller size, one in the Xingtai Shangdu Museum, Hebei province, illustrated by Zhao and Zhang (eds.), Qiannian Xingyao (Xing Kiln in its Millennium), Beijing, 2007, p. 31; one from the Collection of King Gustaf Adolf VI of Sweden, illustrated by Gyllensvärd, The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 8: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Tokyo, 1976, no. 42; one from the collection of Carl Kempe, illustrated by Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 84, no. 228; and one in the Museum Pusat, Jakarta, illustrated by Ridho, The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 3: Museum Pusat, Jakarta, Tokyo, 1977, col. pl. 68.
隋 邢窰或鞏縣窰白瓷大杯二只 徑 12.2 與 12.5 厘米 高 9 與 9.3 厘米
