J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
March 12 - April 4, 2009
41.
A RUSSET-BROWN GLAZED DINGYAO CUPSTAND
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
the well-potted deep cup-shaped support with steeply rounded sides rising to a wide mouth with incurved rim and joined to a wide circular saucer with gently rounded sides curving up to a lipless rim, standing on a tall hollow foot with splayed edge, covered allover with a dark brown glaze showing a slightly variegated semi-lustrous russet surface, the bottom edge of the foot left unglazed revealing the fine white porcelain body.
Diameter 5 inches (12.7 cm)
From the Collection of Edward T. Chow
From the Collection of Ruth Dreyfus, no. 284
From the Collection of Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987), acquired from Dreyfus in 1969 (no. 69.3.34)
Exhibited:
Tel Aviv, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Tel Aviv Museum, 1987
Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, travelling exhibition: Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museum; New York, China Institute Gallery; Madison, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, 1996-1997
Published:
Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, no. 12, pp. 102-105
A very similar russet-glazed Ding ware cupstand in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in the Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji, Liang Song Ciqi, I (The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty, I), Vol. 32, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 86, p. 95.
Compare also a similar cupstand of slightly smaller size from the collection of Aubrey Le Blond, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, fig. 83, described as “red Ding” and previously illustrated in the catalogue of the O.C.S. Jubilee Exhibition, The Ceramic Art of China, London, 1971, pl. 47, no.70, described on p. 75 as “brown Ting.” Another cupstand of very similar form, described as “purple Ding,” is illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume One, London, 1994, no. 354, p. 202.
北宋 紫定盞托 徑 12.7 厘米
41.
A RUSSET-BROWN GLAZED DINGYAO CUPSTAND
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
Diameter 5 inches (12.7 cm)