Provenance: Bluett & Sons, London, May 1961.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York.
Else Sackler Collection, and thence by descent within the family.

Exhibited: Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, The Columbia University Exhibition of 3000 Years of the Ceramic Art and Ancient Sculpture of China from the Sackler Collections, 11 November 1962 - 18 January 1963.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 1987.

Note: Compare with other similar sets including a set with nine cups from the Idemitsu Collection illustrated in The 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1981, no. 616; a smaller set illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 9, Sui and T'ang Dynasties, Tokyo, 1955, no. 103; and a set of ten sancai cups and a tray sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 November 1984, lot 138.

Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 – 19 September 2014, New York, Rockefeller Plaza