A RARE LONGQUAN GUAN-TYPE CUP

13TH/14TH CENTURY

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A RARE LONGQUAN GUAN-TYPE CUP
13TH/14TH CENTURY
With rounded sides supported on a ring foot, one side applied with a loop handle surmounted by a shaped thumb rest, covered all over in a crackled greenish-brown glaze
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) diam.

Exhibited

Selections from the William and Winifred Corbin Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Portland Art Museum, 1 - 29 March 1964, no. 25.
On loan to the Portland Art Museum, 1 June 2006 - 22 June 2010.

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Lot Essay

Compare a Guanyao cup of similar shape, referred to as a brushwasher, included in the exhibition, The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1959-60, vol. 32, pl. 63, no. 164. See, also, the slightly smaller (10.5 cm.) example sold in these rooms, 15 September 2009, lot 322.

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