A Pair Of Qingbai-Glazed Cups And Cupstands, Northern Song Dynasty, 960-1127
Lot 3595. A Pair Of Qingbai-Glazed Cups And Cupstands, Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127). H 33.5cm. Sold for HKD 240,000/USD 30,769 (Estimate HKD 150,000 - 200,000/USD 19,231 - 25,641). © Poly Auction Hong Kong Limited
Each cup is potted with rounded sides and a straight rim supported on a splayed foot. Each stand is potted in the form of an inverted cup surmounting a circular stepped flange supported on a slightly splayed foot and punctuated underside. Both are covered inside and out with a clear crackled glaze of pale greenish-white tone pooling to an aquamarine colour at the recesses. The unglazed undersides reveals the fine white body.
Provenance: The Meiyintang Collection.
Literature: Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994-2010, p.317, no.592.
Note: A very similar cup and stand in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by R. Kerr, Song Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004, p. 99, pl. 99, and another example excavated in 1965 in Nancheng county, dated to 1057, is illustrated by Peng Shifan (ed.), Dated Qingbai Wares of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 45, no. 13.
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