Lot 104. A 'Qingbai' cup and stand, Song dynasty (960-1279). Height 3 3/8  in., 8.5 cm. Estimate 15,000 — 20,000 USD. Lot sold 32,500 USD. Photo Sotheby's.

the thinly potted shallow cup rising from a short flared foot to an everted rim, the rounded sides divided into six petal lobes by notches around the rim, resting on a stand of saucer shape with a hexalobed rim and stepped pedestal in the center, all on a trefoil-pierced petal-shaped foot, both covered overall with a pale ice-blue translucent glaze (2). 

Literature:  Tan Dan Jiong. Zhongguo taoci shi [History of Chinese Ceramics], Volume Two, Taipei, 1985, p.  478. 

Note: Several related qingbai cups and stands have been published. See one in the Baur collection illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 1, Geneva, 1968, pl. A120; another from the Toguri Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in Chugoku toji meihin zuroku [Chinese Ceramics in the Toguri Collection], Tokyo, 1988, no. 50.

Compare also one in the Eugene Bernat collection, included in the exhibition Chinese Ceramics of the Sung Dynasty, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, 1959, cat. no. 66, and illustrated in Sir Harry M. Garner and Margaret Medley, Chinese Art in Three-dimensional Colour, vol. III, London, 1969, p. 210, reel 29, no. 3 and sold in these rooms, 7th November 1980, lot 84; and another in the Muwen Tang collection, included in the exhibition Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat. no. 103, and subsequently sold in our London rooms, 12th November 2003, lot 52. 

Sotheby's. Song Tradition: Early Ceramics from the Yang De Tang Collection. New York, 17 march 2015, 11:00 AM