The deep, rounded sides rising from the small ring foot to the scalloped rim and carved inside and out as chrysanthemum petals, covered overall with a soft sea-green glaze thinning on the ribs and ending in a line above the edge of the foot to expose the buff ware, the convex base similarly glazed, box.

Provenance: Collection of Dickson Reck, purchased in China or Japan in the 1930s or 1940s. 

Note: Compare the similar cup of the same date included in the exhibition, Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, 22 July - 11 September 1994, pp. 168-9, no. 66. . 

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 22 March 2007