SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY (1127-1368)

Details

A RARE AND EXQUISITE QINGBAI ‘CHILONG’ CUP
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY (1127-1368)
5 1⁄8 in. (13 cm.) wide

Provenance

Carl Kempe (1884-1967)
Sold at Sotheby's London, 14 May 2008, lot 319

Literature

Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, no. 533
Oriental Ceramics, vol. 8: The World's Great Collections- Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Tokyo, 1982, no. 183
Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities, Ulricehamn, 2002, no. 730

Exhibited

Kunst Industri Museet, Copenhagen, 1950
Palazzo Ducale, Exhibition of Chinese Art, Venice, 1954, no. 569
Asia House Gallery, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain: The Kempe Collection, New York, 1971, no. 124

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

Compare three similar qingbai cups illustrated by Jan Wirgin in Sung Ceramic Design, Stockholm, 1970: one in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, no. 28g; one in the Honolulu Academy of Arts, pl. 28h; the third in the Barlow Collection, no. 28i. Another example from the Meiyintang Collection is published by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, no. 618.

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