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
34.
A YINGQING GLAZED PORCELAIN FLOWER-SHAPED WINECUP AND STAND
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
following a silver shape, the thinly potted cup with rounded flaring sides divided into six petal-lobes by notches around the everted rim, resting on a small splayed pedestal foot, the dish-shaped stand with wide flat rim cut with six notches on the upturned edge and raised on a high hollow base divided into six petal-shaped 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 glossy 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: Cup 4 1⁄4 inches (10.7 cm); Stand 5 3⁄4 inches (14.5 cm)
A Yingqing cup and stand of very similar form is in the Baur Collection, illustrated by Ayers in The Baur Collection, Vol. I, Geneva, 1968, no. A120 and on the cover of the dust-jacket for the catalogue. Other similar examples of this same form are illustrated by Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume One, London, 1994, no. 593, p. 317, and in the Illustrated Catalogues of the Tokyo National Museum, Vol. I: Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1988, no. 390, p. 99. Compare also the Yingqing cup and stand of very similar form illustrated in the catalogue of the Turner Collection of Chinese Art, Eye to the East, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, 2008, p. 63.
A Northern Song silver cup and cupstand of closely related form in the Uldry Collection is illustrated in the catalogue of the exhibition shown at the Rietberg Museum entitled Chinesisches Gold und Silber: Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Zurich, 1994, no. 269, p. 228.
北宋 影青盞及盞托 盞徑 10.7 厘米 托徑 14.5 厘米
