Lot 223. A white stoneware cup stand, Tang-Five Dynasties, 9.5cm., 3 3/4 in. Estimate 300 - 500 GBP. Lot sold 1,188 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's.

the curved sides rising from a short spreading foot to a broad flaring collar and incurved rim, covered overall with an ivory-white glaze.

Exhibited: The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1955, cat. no. 195.

Literature: 'Hsing-Yao and Ting-Yao', The Bulletin of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 25, 1953, Stockholm, 1953, pl. 47, fig. 42.

Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 315.