A Blue-Glazed Pottery Cup, Tang Dynasty - Photo Sotheby's

the deep rounded sides rising from a spreading foot to a flared rim, covered in a streaky greenish-blue glaze stopping unevenly above the foot revealing the buff-coloured body; 5.5cm., 2 1/4 in. Estimation: 4,000 - 6,000 GBP

PROVENANCE: Collection of Rudolph Schaeffer. 

EXHIBITED: Selections from the Rudolph Schaeffer Collection, De Young Museum, San Francisco, 1976, cat. no. 35.
From the Tang to the Qing: Chinese Ceramics from circa 618-1850 A.D. from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Peter Thompson, Hull University, Hull, 1996, cat. no. 2.

Sotheby's. Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Peter and Nancy Thompson. London | 07 nov. 2012 www.sothebys.com